With the courage which only comes of justified self-confidence, he dared to rest his case upon its strongest point, and so avoided that appearance of weakness and uncertainty which comes of a clutter of arguments. Few lawyers are willing to do this; it is the mark of the most distinguished talent.

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there i…

Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself.

When I hear so much impatient and irritable complaint, so much readiness to replace what we have by guardians for us all, those supermen, evoked somewhere from…

We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.

We are the masters at the moment and shall be for some considerable time.

With luck we will be able to repulse the invaders before they land. At any rate, I can say that we will be able to destroy the major part of an invading force.…