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.

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

Law never is, but is always about to be.

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

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

There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals.