On your first appearance before the Court, do not waste your time and ours telling us so. We are likely to discover for ourselves that you are a novice but will think none the less of you for it. Every famous lawyer had his first day at our bar, and perhaps a sad one:.Be respectful, of course, but also be self-respectful, and neither disparage yourself nor flatter the Justices. We think well enough of ourselves already.

I used to say that, as Solicitor General, I made three arguments in every case. First came the one I had planned - as I thought, logical, coherent, complete. S…

When the Court moved to Washington in 1800, it was provided with no books, which probably accounts for the high quality of early opinions.

Often his name was, in a generation or two, forgotten. It was from this brotherhood that America has drawn its statesmen and its judges. A free and self-govern…