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.

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

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

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

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

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.

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