Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

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.

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.

The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

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