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

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

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.

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

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

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