Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

There must have been good grounds for belief in witchcraft; otherwise Parliament would not have legislated against it.

A thing which is not in esse but in apparent expectancy is regarded in law.

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 are the more bold and peremptory.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also

In the meane time know this, that the learning of warranties is one of the most curious and cunning learnings of the law, and of great use and consequence.