Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

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

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

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.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

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