Henry David Thoreau

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.

An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

Are you threatening me? If you so much as touch me I’ll have you arrested!

My focus now is to be the best justice I can be.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Justice? – You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.