Edward Coke

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

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

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

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

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

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

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

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

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

Corporations cannot commit treason nor be outlawed nor excommunicate for they have no souls.