History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
Law never is, but is always about to be.
The risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.