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

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

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

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.

No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

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.

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.