Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Law never is, but is always about to be.