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.

Anybody who is any good is different from anybody else.

Judicial judgment must take deep account...of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today.

Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in history but also in hopes, for promoting to a maximum the full use of a nation's resources and talents.

It simply is not true that war never settles anything.

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

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.