Law never is, but is always about to be.

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name.

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.

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

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.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

Law never is, but is always about to be.