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.

Common law is common right.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale

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.

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

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