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

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

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.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

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

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

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