Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

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.

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.

The way our fingers intertwine feels so natural and right

When I say love, I mean love.

I view cats as more like wild animals. We feed it, but a lot of times it's not eating the food because it's murdering other animals outside and eating their meat.

It is in being the caterpillar that you become the butterfly.

Every Vada-Pav is a potential burger

Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all.

The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

We must not be so concerned with the unborn that we fail to pay attention to the born.