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.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

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

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

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