Law never is, but is always about to be.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.