The words of the Constitution... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

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.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

I don’t like a man to be too efficient. He’s likely to be not human enough.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

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.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.