The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.
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.
Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.
The final cause of law is the welfare of society.
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
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.