The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

I look at man through Malthus's glasses –as like flies– here swept away by pestilence – there multiplying unduly and paying for it. I think morals are not the last word but only a check for varying intensity upon force, which seems to me likely to remain the ultimate as far as I can look ahead.

if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows.

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.