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.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

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

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

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

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.