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

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

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

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.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.