Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.