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.

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

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

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

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.

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.

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