"A man's rights are to be determined by the Court, not by his attorney or counsel. It is for want of remembering this that foolish people object to lawyers that they will advocate a case against their own opinions. A client is entitled to say to his counsel, I want your advocacy, not your judgment; I prefer that of the Court."

"I remember Lord Eldon saying to counsel, " You have told us how far the cases have gone, will you now tell us where they are to stop?" I think it is now time that we should say where the cases are to stop."

"You need not cite cases: 'Tis a principle."

"An overspeaking Judge is a no well-timed cymbal. It is no grace to a Judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the Bar, or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent (anticipate) information by questions, though pertinent."

"You need not cite cases that are familiar."

"No man has a higher sense of the importance of the rights and privileges of counsel in discharge of their arduous and important duties, and I should regret if they had not that privilege, not for their sake only, but for the sake of the whole community."

"The Court is greatly obliged to the gentlemen of the Bar who have spoke on the subject; and by whose care and abilities so much has been effected, that the rule of decision will be reduced to a very easy compass. I cannot omit to express particular happiness in seeing young men, just called to the Bar, have been able so much to profit by their reading."

"It is expected you should do your best for those you are assigned for, as it is expected in any other case, that you do your duty for your client."

"Absurdum est affirjnare (re judicata) eredendum esse non judici: It is absurd to say, after judgment, that any one else than the Judge should be hearkened to."

"And let not the counsel at the bar chop with the Judge, nor wind himself into the handling of the cause anew, after the Judge hath declared his sentence."

"A counsel's position is one of the utmost difficulty. He is not to speak of that which he knows; he is not called upon to consider whether the facts with which he is dealing are true or false. What he has to do, is to argue as best he can, without degrading himself, in order to maintain the proposition which will carry with it either the protection or the remedy which he desires for his client. If amidst the difficulties of his position he were to be called upon during the heat of his argument to consider whether what he says is true or false, whether what he says is relevant or irrelevant, he would have his mind so embarrassed that he could not do the duty which he is called upon to perform. For, more than a Judge, infinitely more than a witness, he wants protection on the ground of benefit to the public. The rule of law is that what is said in the course of the administration of the law is privileged; and the reason of that rule covers a counsel even more than a Judge or a witness."

"Counsel are frequently induced, and they are justified in taking the most favourable view of their clients' case; and it is not fair to pass over any piece of evidence they find difficult to deal with, provided they cite, fairly and correctly, those parts of the evidence they comment upon."

"There is usually a decency about counsel which prevents them from pressing that to a conclusion which can never be concluded."

"The point now before us is a settled case, and therefore there is no need to enter into arguments about it."

"Consider a little how you treat the Court; the objection hath been solemnly taken in this Court, argued and adjudged by this Court, and now you come to arraign that judgment that was then given."

"It has been always the practice heretofore, that when the Court have delivered their opinion, the counsel should sit down and not dispute it any further."

"It is fit they should speak what they can for the advantage of their client."

"In a common case, it is the usual course for the counsel to take the memorandums in his hand, for the cross-examination."

"If any whimsical notions are put into you, by some enthusiastic counsel, the Court is not to take notice of their crotchets."

"No counsel in the world that understand themselves, can argue anything against what has been often settled and always practised."

"A gentleman at the Bar."

"A gentleman of Lincoln's-inn."

"Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can."

"Smooth verse, inspired by no unlettered Muse."

"So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould."

"What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?"

"Ah, ye knights of the pen! May honour be your shield, and truth tip your lances ! Be gentle to all gentle people. Be modest to women. Be tender to children. And as for the Ogre Humbug, out sword, and have at him!"

"The great and good do not die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect to which one still listens."

"Look in thy heart and write."

"Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."

"Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity."

"Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio."

"Lis ont les textes pour eux, mais j'en suis fache pour les textes."

"As though I lived to write, and wrote to live."

"'Tis not how well an author says, But 'tis how much, that gathers praise."

"Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; So may he cease to write, and learn to think."

"Whether the darken'd room to muse invite, Or whiten'd wall provoke the skew'r to write; In durance, exile, Bedlam, or the Mint, Like Lee or Budgel I will rhyme and print."

"E'en copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art—the art to blot."

"Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipt me in ink, my parents', or my own? As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came."

"Scriptaferuntannos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit."

"Prsebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero."

"To write upon all is an author's sole chance For attaining, at last, the least knowledge of any."

"The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr."

"He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there is a whole book full of them?"

"Jack writes severe lampoons on me, 'tis said—But he writes nothing, who is never read."

"You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine, or else publish your own."

"No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies."

"He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite."

"He that commeth in print because he woulde be knowen, is like the foole that commeth into the Market because he woulde be seen."

"It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century."