... perhaps there is no conceit so arrogant as the conceit which follows a conviction of emancipation.
Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.
I have heard that a man might be his own lawyer, but you can't be your own judge.
When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.
as I get older there is nothing more constantly astonishing to me than the goodness of the Bad; - unless it is the badness of the Good.