A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Some of her answers might excite popular prejudice, but if there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought—not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.

The only simplicity for which I would give a straw is that which is on the other side of the complex — not that which never has divined it.

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.