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

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

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

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.

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

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.