The expression, 'A Roman father,' arises, as well as I recollect, from an incident of the sort, and the men who have done that kind of thing have always been regarded as the brightest examples of incorruptibility.

Every lawyer is brought up in the tradition that he can't do a finer action, if he becomes a judge--and they all expect to become judges in the end--than to hang a relative of his own.

Sir Gilbert saw his opportunity when Miss King was brought up before him, and the moment he became convinced of her guilt he summed up against her in the most determined way." "You may talk as you like, J.J., but no judge would do it." "You have evidently a very low opinion of judges," said Meldon.

"So has Doyle.

He thinks that they are all influenced by political prejudices, and are ready to condemn a man who belongs to any League, without waiting to find out whether he has committed a crime or not.
That's bad enough; but what you charge them with is infinitely worse.
You say that they are habitually guilty of nepotism--that is to say of partiality to their own nieces, which is one of the worst crimes there is in a judge, as bad as simony would be in a bishop." "I don't say anything of the sort.