Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

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

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

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.

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

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