Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is.

Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.