Precaution is better than a cure.

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

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

No man can be a compleat Lawyer by universalitie of knowledge without experience in particular cases, nor by bare experience without universalitie of knowledge; he must be both speculative & active, for the science of the laws, I assure you, must joyne hands with experience.

Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.