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.

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

For a man's house is his castle.

The law doth never enforce a man to doe a vaine thing.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.

Everyone thirsteth after gaine.

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.