Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.
The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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.
Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.