His sense of superiority was not entirely unfounded. Though his methods were extreme and his understanding of court and his own importance in it immensely skewed... he was a genius. Statistics alone suggest that he must have wrongfully convicted the innocent several times, and yet I would be unsurprised if the proportion were lower for him than it would have been if anyone else had gone undefeated in court for forty years.

Of course, this does not by any means excuse him; had he only accepted the impossibility of perfection, he would have been a far better man. Indeed, my life would never have happened in any recognizable way if not for his evils.