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

No judicial system could do society's work if each issue had to be decided afresh in every case which raised it.

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

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.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

The Constitution was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are in union and not division.