Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.

Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself, and not what we have said about it.

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of a free society.

Congress is, after all, not a body of laymen unfamiliar with the commonplaces of our law. This legislation was the formulation of the two Judiciary Committees, all of whom are lawyers, and the Congress is predominately a lawyers' body.