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

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

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

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

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

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.

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