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

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

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

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

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

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