The hugging of the Bar, like the Simony of the Church, must be altogether carried on by the intervention of third persons.

We are sensible of our dependence on the attorneys, and proportioned to that sense of dependence is our affectation of superiority.

Even to take a meal with an attorney is a high misdemeanour.

One of the most eminent men among us brought himself into a serious scrape by doing so.

But to carry a letter of introduction, to wait in the outer room while it is being read, to be then ushered into the presence, to receive courtesies which can only be considered as the condescensions of a patron, to return courtesies which are little else than the blessings of a beggar, would be an infinitely more terrible violation of our professional code.