History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

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

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.

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

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.