Ed Stapleton

“For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”
― T.S. Eliot

“I mean no disrespect to the gentlemen of the bench, but it is no secret that our system of justice, praised throughout Europe for its severity and its swiftness, is a terrible and fearful thing, and no man, guilty or innocent, wishes to stand before it.”
― David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Criminal lawyers reported greater job satisfaction than did litigators and those not specifying an area of practice.”
― Susan Swaim Daicoff, Lawyer, Know Thyself: A Psychological Analysis of Personality Strengths and Weaknesses