Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.

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

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

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.

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

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