The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

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

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

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 judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.