The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

Any new formula which suddenly emerges in our consciousness has its roots in long trains of thought; it is virtually old when it first makes its appearance among the recognized growths of our intellect.

Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.