Orange Jacobs: “The view was grand but terrible--sublime but cruel.”

Pioneers, Washington, with all her grand resources--developed and yet to be developed--won by your privations, courage and patriotism, is your gift to the Union, to be consecrated to liberty, regulated by law, forever.

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…

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.