In any event, mere speed is not a test of justice. Deliberate speed is. Deliberate speed takes time. But it is time well spent. - Felix Frankfurter

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.

While it is not always profitable to analogize "fact" to "fiction," La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there is a substantial difference between holding a piece of cheese in the beak and putting it in the stomach.