Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln

A lawyer's time and advice are his(her) stock in trade.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.