"I tell my kids ... "Tell me when I'm going gaga — but all three of you had better come in, because if it's just one o…"

"Let's choose executors and talk of wills: And yet not so, for what can we bequeath Save our deposed bodies to the gro…"

"Of all the cases which come before the Court for its decision, none can be more embarrassing and more unsatisfactory …"

"In the state of languor in which dying persons generally are, their assent could be easily got to statements which th…"

"This seems to me to be one of those cases in which the Court is bound to arrive at a conclusion without having any sa…"

"A will is often executed suddenly in a last sickness, and sometimes in the article of death . . . consequently the ti…"

"As lawyers we must construe the will like any other document."

"The law has ever been watchful and jealous of wills made under religious influences, and especially so when those inf…"

"I regret exceedingly that, not only ordinary laymen, but, as it seems to me, professional men, do not understand the …"

"Men should not sin in their graves."