People came in from the country round with their covered wagons, simply for the pleasure of attending Court and seeing the champions contend with each other.

He did not keep the wig or the queue or the small-clothes of our great-grandfathers, but he had their formal and ceremonial manners in perfection.

He paused for a moment, surveyed you carefully to be sure of the person, took a little time for reflection to be sure there was nothing in the act to compromise his dignity, and then slowly held out his hand.

Willard, drawing himself up to his full height, with the great solemnity of tone of which he was master: "Sir, I do not permit myself to make the laws of my country the subject of a bet.

He was a man of excellent judgment, wisdom, integrity and law learning enough to make him a safe guide to his clients in their important transactions.

He prided himself on the fact that he never drew an indictment which was not sustained by the Court, if it were questioned.

He was the very type and embodiment of the Yankee countryman in his excellencies and his defects and in his fashion of speech and behavior.

The only evidence I ever discovered of his classical education was his habit of using the Greek double negative in ordinary English speech.

I have rarely known a better judge of the effect of evidence on the mind of ordinary juries.

He took his clients into his affection as if they had been his own brethren or children, and seemed always to hate to be compelled to make any charge for his services, however successful.

So I think we must be governed by the rule of law for the case nearest like it we can find.

He was simple and guileless as a child; of a most inflexible honesty, devoted to the interest of his clients, and an enthusiastic lover of the science of the law.

When, in rare cases, he thoroughly believed in the righteousness of his case, he was irresistible.

But he resented any attempt to deprive a client, however much of a n'er-do-well he might be, of all the rights and forms of a legal trial.

It was impossible for him to bear malice or retain resentment against anybody.

He was the kindliest of men, both to man and beast.

The great interests of clients were safe with him.

To him the profession of the lawyer was a sacred office.

But he had a rare gift of seizing upon the thought which was uppermost in the minds of excellent and sensible men, country farmers, skilled workmen in the shops, business men, expressing it in a clear and vigorous way, always agreeing with…

This, with an unfailing courtesy and pleasant humor and integrity of character and life gave him great popularity.

No more powerful statement of the argument against high protection can be found.

I have been surprised that the modern free-traders have not long ago discovered it, and brought it to light.

I bow down to him as the wild Indian does before his wooden idol.

I know he's ugly; but I bow to a superior intelligence.

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.