Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.

Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able to keep our democracy, there must be once commandment: THOU SHALT NOT RATION JUSTICE.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.