Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

I choose spiritual romance. I am sacred!

A rare academic (was) a man who knew what he didn't know.

Thus far, the best that could be said for the day was that it was half over.

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter.

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.

Don't come to church for an emotional experience. Come to church for the truth.

Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.