There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

I think there should be no occasion on which it is absolutely, as a point or rule of law, impossible for a man to redeem his character.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.