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 honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge. Consider, sir; what is the purpose of courts of justice? It is, that every man may have his cause fairly tried, by men appointed to try causes. A lawyer is not to tell what he knows to be a lie: he is not to produce what he knows to be a false deed; but he is not to usurp the province of the jury and of the judge, and determine what shall be the effect of evidence - what shall be the result of legal argument.

The reciprocal civility of authors is one of the most risible scenes in the farce of life.

If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judic…

It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.

You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's…

Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?

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.