I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.

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.

Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

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.