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

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.

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.

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.

She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.

Simplicity and humility are the flowers of greatness.

If you look accurately into your life, it is full of fun and enjoyment.

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

I know my priorities... I love music and I will continue to make songs, I know it's not just a period in my life. But I am focused on my studies.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.