A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.
Humour is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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In cross-examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
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