We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?

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

Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.

I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. 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. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.

The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and more important, part of the law; subtract these and very little content would be left.