You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions
We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
Trial by jury is a wise distribution of power which exceeds all other modes of trial.
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.