In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

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.

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

Law never is, but is always about to be.

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

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.