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

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

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.

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