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.

In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

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

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.

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.

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