Orange Jacobs

The silent influence of our institutions has secured the annexation of the Hawaiian Islands--the gem of the Pacific and the outward bulwark of the Pacific States.

Peace has her victories no less renowned than war's.

While the light of ages comes streaming down the pathway of history, it illumes the present and enlarges the scope of human knowledge, yet it gives no prophetic insight, hence, which will be the final victor is unseen.

Steam, whose latent energies were then but little known, under the exploitations of science and inventive genius, became, and continues to be the chief motive power of the world.

Then he would learn to do his own thinking and reason from the principles laid down in the fundamental works upon the science of the law.

However, I was trying to show that pioneer lawyers were forced to do their own reasoning, to rely upon their own intellectual powers.

Where different judges differ, it isn't in the science of the law, it is in the art connected with that science.

The science consists of the principles upon which that art rests.

Every profession has connected with it two things: a science, and an art.

He had to rely on his remembrance of general principles; and he learned to reason from those general principles to his conclusions; and his success at the Bar depended upon the clearness of his statements and the cogency and force of his…

In the onward sweep of development and civilization, and in the largeness of population, individuality becomes fused in the general mass, and loses its salient characteristics.

I am inclined to believe, however that the actual intellectual and moral tone of a given period, as well as the social status, has no truer index than its current anecdotes.

Their inquiry was not, what was the reason of the thing, but what had some Court said?

He claimed that their use had changed the members of the legal profession from a body of original and stalwart thinkers, to a body of sickly book-worms.

He often said that we were too much inclined to go far from home for our law; that we were fond of legal exotics.

His knowledge of Statutory law was comprehensive and wonderfully accurate, both in a historical and constructive sense.

She had no Tacoma, then, to control the spirit of lawlessness and to teach her citizens that life's truer conflicts are different, and nobler.

Pierce County, now a model of intellectual and moral progress, with a thrifty, energetic and law-abiding population, was, in early Territorial days, a hotbed of local feuds frequently resulting in homicide.

The Court surrendered its dignity for a time and joined in the storm of laughter.

I limited the time of address to juries, adjusting the time according to the importance of the case and the character of the rights involved.

I made myself something of a judicial tyrant during that term.

I do not know that I desire a full return of the customs of other days, but I would, if I could, check this tendency to social isolation.

We rarely see the Judge now except when he is fully clad with judicial thunder.

I possess not that gravity of countenance, nor that dignity of demeanor, nor that solemnity of vocal utterance, so necessary to give full zest even to a well-told tale.