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.

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

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

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

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

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.

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