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

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.