To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned.

Each child should be more intelligent than his parents.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

The truth is always modern and there never comes a time when it is safe to give it voice.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

Some false representations contravene the law; some do not. The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business, and, besides, could not be done. The line between honesty and dishonesty is a narrow, shifting one and usually lets those get by that are the most subtle and already have more than they can use.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.