George F. Hoar: “Study at a law school is invaluable to the youth if he is to rise in his profession; but there is no law school like a…”

Certainly if he had performed the promise of his boyhood he would have been one of the foremost men in American literature.

But, as I have already said, when the time came, he always subordinated his own desire to what he deemed the welfare of the public.

There has probably never been a man in our history upon whom so few people looked with indifference.

Judge Hoar strenuously insisted that the Judges of the newly created Circuit Courts of the United States should be made up of the best lawyers, without Senatorial dictation.