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

In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

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.

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

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

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