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 of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.
Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
A corporation has no soul.
The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
The law of the realm cannot be changed but by Parliament.