When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.
If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn.
Mind is the great lever of all things.
No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.
If you divorce capital from labor, capital is hoarded, and labor starves.
Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.