With traps and obstacles and hazards confronting us on every hand, only blindness or indifference will fail to turn in all humility, for guidance or ….

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities..

The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed..

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future..

In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when cer….

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to ….

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness..

More truly characteristic of dissent is a dignity, an elevation, of mood and thought and phrase. Deep conviction and warm feeling are saying their la….

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by..

The final cause of law is the welfare of society..

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive..

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more..

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but….

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and acti….

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances..

Danger invites rescue. ... The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had..

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion..

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions..

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning..

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom..

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit ….