From Judge Edward E. Carnes of the Eleventh Circuit in the case of Gilley v. Monsanto Co., Inc., 490 F.3d 848, 856 (11th Cir. 2007) mentioned in my previous post here:
Throughout his judicial career Holmes relished challenging cases. While on Massachusetts’ highest court he confessed to a friend that although none of the cases he had handled that year had been of universal interest, “there is always the pleasure of unraveling a difficulty.” A decade and a half later, while on the Supreme Court, he told the same friend that he had few cases of general interest that term, but “[t]here is always the fun of untying a knot and trying to do it in good compact form.” It is a pity that Holmes did not live to see ERISA cases.