Edwards’s famed defense attorney, Abbe Lowell: “No one is going to deny that Mr. Edwards lied and lied and lied and lied.”

A couple of centuries ago Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott penned one of my favorite lines:

"Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!”

(Sir Walter Scott's Marmion.)

For a good account of the trial, see The Washington Post.