Orange Jacobs: “The principles and lessons he taught are his best legacy to his country.”

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

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.

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

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