The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.

Opinion has a significance proportioned to the sources that sustain it.

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

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

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