Orange Jacobs: “The high seas are in the joint possession of all the nations, and yet every nation punishes its own subjects for crimes…”

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

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.

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

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…