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

Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.

The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

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

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.

To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.