1. “The final cause of law is the welfare of society.”
2. “There are vogues ad fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.”
3. “Method is much technique is much, but inspiration is even more.”
4. “Consequences cannot alter statues, but may help to fix their meaning.”
5. “The risk to be perceived defines the duty to be obeyed.”
6. “Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.”
7. “Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.”
8. “The constant assumption runs throughout the law tat the natural and spontaneous evolutions of habit fix the limits of right and wrong.”
9. “Prophecy however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.”
10. “Law never is, but is always about to be.”
11. “History, in illuminating the past, illuminate the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.”
12. “Code is followed by commentary, and commentary by revision, and thus the task is never done.”
13. “The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum ad trumpet.”
14. “The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.”
15. “Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.”
