What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

I abominate war as Unchristian. I hold it the greatest of human crimes. I deem it to involve all others,--violence, blood, rapine, fraud; everything that can deform the character, alter the nature, and debase the name of man.

Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us.

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

What individual can so well assess the amount of damages which a plaintiff ought to recover for an injury he has received than an intelligent jury?

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.