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

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

Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.

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

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.

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.

The constant assumption runs throughout the law that the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.