All laws stand on the best and broadest basis which go to enforce…

The use of cases is to establish principles; if the cases decide different from the principles, I must follow the principles, not the decisions.

There are certain irregularities which are not the subject of criminal law. But when the criminal law happens to be auxiliary to the law of morality, I do not feel any inclination to explain it away.

Modus in rebus—there must be an end of things.

If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.