Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

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

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

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

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.

Law never is, but is always about to be.

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.