The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

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.

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.

He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.

Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral 48% indignation and 50% envy.

When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

The beauty of social awareness is that a few simple adjustments to what you say can vastly improve your relationships with other people.

But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

I didn't get this dressed up to watch you mess around in the gutter with a bunch of motorcycles." "They are pretty to look at," said Jace. "You have to admit that." "So am I," said Isabelle.

When we look through the lens of each others' weaknesses, we make others' strengths irrelevant and their weaknesses more evident.

I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue.