If the simplest motion were made, he had to unlimber the heavy artillery of his mind, go down to the roots of the question, consider the matter in all possible relations, and deal with it as if he were besieging a fortress.
Hoar describes the Chief Justice's thorough and methodical approach to legal matters.
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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.
The large majority was made up of sensible, strong-headed country farmers, rather slow in making up their minds, but making them up always on considerations of what was best for the Commonwealth.
Perhaps, taking him all together, the most brilliant man in Harvard in my time was John Felton.
To yield to him was never the way to win his good will.
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