I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
Law never is, but is always about to be.
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.
Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.
The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.