Law never is, but is always about to be.

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

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.

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

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.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

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