The great generalities of the constitution have a content and a significance that vary from age to age.

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.

When you start with thanksgiving, you will always end with praise. Be thankful, it grows.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Americans get mad as hell with reasonable frequency but quickly return to their families and sitcoms.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

People are fed up with something when it becomes more and more popular.

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.