Never forget, almost every case has been won or lost when the jury is sworn.

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation.

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

There are a lot of myths which make the human race cruel and barbarous and unkind. Good and Evil, Sin and Crime, Free Will and the like delusions made to excuse God for damning men and to excuse men for crucifying each other.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.