Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

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

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

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

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.