We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

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.

Every human being of adult years and sound mind has a legal right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

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.

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

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

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.