The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.