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.

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.

There be three kinds of unhappie men. 1. Qui scit & non docet, Hee that hath knowledge and teacheth not. 2. Qui docet & non vivit, He that teacheth, and liveth not thereafter. 3. Qui nescit, & non interrogat, He that knoweth not, and doth not enquire to understand.

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

The Law ... is perfection of reason.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also