Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.