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.

The King himself should be under no man, but under God and the Law.

A corporation has no soul.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also

Reason is the life of the law.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

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.