Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

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

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

The law compells no man to impossible things. The argument ab impossibili is forcible in law.

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.

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