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.

Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.

The final cause of law is the welfare of society.

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.

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.

Consequences cannot alter statutes, but may help to fix their meaning.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

The Constitution overrides a statute, but a statute, if consistent with the Constitution, overrides the law of judges. In this sense, judge-made law is secondary and subordinate to the law that is made by legislators.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

Due process is a growth too sturdy to succumb to the infection of the least ingredient of error.

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 repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.

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

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

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

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

Law never is, but is always about to be.

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

To the question how one kind of labor can be measured against another, how the labor of the artisan can be measured against the labor of the artist, how the labor of the strong can be measured against the labor of the weak, the communists can give no answer.