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

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

My constitution was destroyed long ago; now I am living under the bylaws.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

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.

We are born and we die; and between these two most important events in our lives more or less time elapses which we have to waste somehow or other. In the end it does not seem to matter much whether we have done so in making money, or practicing law, or reading or playing, or in any other way, as long as we felt we were deriving a maximum of happiness out of our doings.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.