Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client.

I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.

Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.