Most lawyers only tell you about the cases they win. I can tell you about some I lose. A lawyer who wins all his cases does not have many.

Everybody is a potential murderer. I've never killed anyone, but I frequently get satisfaction reading the obituary notices.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

Religion is based on the insistence that over and above all is a purpose and a guiding hand that is beneficent and kind, and would not leave a hair unnumbered or let a sparrow fall unnoticed to the ground. Those who cherish such hallucinations forget that the all-loving power is inflicting tuberculosis, cancer, famine, and pestilence on the trusting, simple sons of men.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

In the great flood of human life that is spawned upon the earth, it is not often that a man is born.