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

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

Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.

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.

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

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