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

"The defendant styles herself "a creator of fashions." Her favor helps a sale. Manufacturers of dresses, millinery and…"

"The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every sli…"

"Danger invites rescue. … The wrongdoer may not have foreseen the coming of a deliverer. He is accountable as if he had."

"Fulfillment may fall short of expectation. At least there has been gained a foothold from which occasion can be seized."

"Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice."

"The whole problem of the relation between parent and subsidiary corporations is one that is still enveloped in the mi…"

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

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

"Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions."