The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

The whole, though larger than any of its parts, does not necessarily obscure their separate identities.

We have here the problem of bigness. Its lesson should by now have been burned into our memory by Brandeis. The Curse of Bigness shows how size can become a me…

Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is la…

Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in pun…