In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the….

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

It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of admin….

Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done..

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

The validity of a tax depends upon its nature, and not upon its name..

As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with meas….

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced..

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none..

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..

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

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

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

The difference is no less real because it is of degree..

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

History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of….

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

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

The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small ….

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