It is a pleasure and an honor to be asked to contribute to a festschrift dedicated to that fountain of youth, energy, and excellence, John Noonan, who has been a close friend and a professional colleague for forty years. John has written about many of the legal topics that are closest to my own heart and I have chosen to include in this volume a piece that combines many of our joint interests: legal history, the Cardozo family, and judicial ethics. Judge Noonan has in fact alluded quite specifically in two of his own pieces to the career that figures in my contribution. My subject is Cardozo, not the twentieth-century Benjamin of high repute featured in Judge Noonan's Persons and Masks of the Law, but his father, the nineteenth-century Albert of low repute, whose career figures in Judge Noonan's exhaustive treatise on Bribes. The legal career and the approach of the nineteenth century Cardozo to law is an interesting and instructive prelude to the more common study of the contribution of the twentieth century Cardozo.