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

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

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

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 risk to be percieved defines the duty to be obeyed.

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.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.