I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.