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.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

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

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

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.