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.

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

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

To be civilized is to be potentially master of all possible ideas, and that means that one has got beyond being shocked, although one preserves one's own moral aesthetic preferences.

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

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

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