Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

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

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

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

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.