Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

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

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

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

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