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 language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.

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.

Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.

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