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

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

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.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

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.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

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