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This discovery [the flow of electric current] was an audacious mental creation which we own chiefly to the fact that [Michael] Faraday never went to school and therefore preserved the rate gift of thinking freely.

When I defend a man in a capital case, my fee is everything he owns. The way I have got it figured, if I win him his freedom it is worth it, and if I don't, he won't need it anyway.

I never forget a friend or forgive an enemy, and if somebody is stupid enough to make themselves my enemy I destroy them.

Do Not Defend.

Never Plead Guilty.

We live in a world of slow walkers, talkers and thinkers.

A man can always be underdressed, but never overdressed.

I will never have to defend a child who has been read to.

You need not ask a question to get the information you seek; it will be revealed to you by way of an off-hand remark.

A friend stands beside you when you are taking your blows, and behind you when you are taking your bows.