Wellenberg Monologue from The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts

From The Lawyers, A Drama in Five Acts by August Wilhelm Iffland

male · inspirational · 1:16 min

(with a smile.) Lawyer! I cannot bear that name; it conveys the idea of an entangled net, or of a deceitful guide, that will lead you out of the way into the pathless desert. We should not be called Lawyers, but the Friends of Justice. (Clar: Yes, yes; Friends of Justice, the foes of chicanery!) Who will not plead in an unjust cause! Do you promise that? Have you the resolution to be an honest Lawyer? (P. Coun: With the greatest pleasure.) Write little; act a good deal; take little money; have a good stock of honesty and kind intentions; apply but seldom for advice to the corpus juris, but often to the heart; and to the hour of death I shall esteem you. I shall lead the way by the course of nature, but it will yet be a consolation to me in my last moments to think I have left an honest man behind me,--a man that will wipe away the tears of the widow and the orphan.

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