The Law ... is perfection of reason..

A corporation has no soul..

He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated..

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose..

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great..

We should speak as the populace but think as the learned..

So as grave and learned men may doubt, without any imputation to them; for the most learned doubteth most, and the more ignorant for the most part ar….

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty..

For a man's house is his castle..

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law..

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it..

It is the worst oppression, that is done by colour of justice.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

Force ought to follow justice and not to precede..

The Common lawes of the Realme should by no means be delayed for the law is the surest sanctuary, that a man should take, and the strongest fortresse….

No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of….

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge o….

There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, ….

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished..

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason..

The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament..