Precaution is better than a cure.
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
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.