Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
Edward Coke
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
So use your own property as not to injure that of another.
