Excerpt from The Constitution of the United States: Three Lectures Delivered Before the University Law School of Washington

It gives me great pleasure, gentlemen, to spend three evenings of the little recess, or holiday, that our court takes from its labors, in communing with gentlemen who are in pursuit of the law. As I had occasion to say to the Bar Association of the city of New York, last fall was a year, when I delivered the address before it, We are all lawyers, and judges do not cease to be law yers by becoming judges, in fact, they would be very poor judges if they were not. Lawyers.

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