“Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.”

“The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer.”

“It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.”

“Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn’t believe he is dead.”

“A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. ”

“There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.”

“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. ”