When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away.

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.

The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.