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

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

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

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.

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

No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.