The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.