Law is learned by studying, but it is practiced by thinking.
The legal profession is a hard work at the service of just causes.
Law is constantly changing. If you do not follow in its footsteps, you will be a little less of a lawyer every day.
In law, time takes its revenge for things that are done without its cooperation.
Our duty is to fight for the law, but on the day when law and justice are in conflict, fight for justice.
Tolerate the truth of others to the same extent that we wish our own to be tolerated.
Loyal to the client, whom you must not abandon until you realize that he is unworthy of you. Loyal to the adversary, even when he is disloyal to you. Loyal to the Judge, who is ignorant of the facts and must trust what you say, and who, as to the law, must occasionally trust the one you invoke.
To have faith in law, as the best instrument for human coexistence, in justice, as the normal destiny of law, in peace, as a kindly substitute for justice. And above all, to have faith in freedom, without which there is no law, no justice and no peace.
Lawyering is not a fight of passions. If in every battle you go charging your soul with rancor, the day will come when life will be impossible. Once the battle is over, forget the victory as soon as the defeat.
To treat the legal profession in such a way that the day when your children ask for advice about their destiny, consider it an honor to suggest that they become lawyers.