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Short things are short all over and long things are long all over.

A government of laws, and not of men.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

Men must know their limitations.

Some women tend to sell themselves short. I've only ever had women say to me, 'I could never argue in the Supreme Court!' Do you think a man has ever said that to me? Of course not.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.