A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.

The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

A person of genius should marry a person of character.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

Lawyers spend their professional careers shoveling smoke.