Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

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.

..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

Sometimes you're not ready to give the world quite what it wants. And that's okay, because the Earth is generously patient.

To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.

I would have liked to be a comedian in the '20s, or maybe even a comedian on the Mayflower and have a statue somewhere.

There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.

As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.

Opportunity only gives you knockers once.

Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.