Judges ought to remember, that their office is jus dicere, and not jus dare; to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

The winning of honor, is but the revealing of a man's virtue and worth, without disadvantage.

To seek to extinguish anger utterly, is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. An…

Glorious men are the scorn of wise men, the admiration of fools, the idols of parasites, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it ho…

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.

Ach! I know. If I were to play the Pathetique or the Moonlight Sonata for the high judges, they would let me off. But my defense unfortunately will not be musi…