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 heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

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

No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

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