It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life.

Only when a disputed point has long caused bloodshed and disturbance, or when a successful invader (military or theological) insists on a change, is it necessary to draw up a code.

The process of specialization tends, almost inevitably, to narrow the sources from which the rules of any science are drawn; and English law is no exception from this rule.

Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?

The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

It was not long before English Law took the one step needed to produce the modern scheme of legal remedies. And when it did, it used the Writ of Trespass as the starting point.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

Whatever else the Norman Conquest may or may not have done, it made the old haphazard state of legal affairs forever impossible.

It is true, that a Law of Contract based on causae will always be an arbitrary and inelastic law; but it is a kind of law with which some great nations are satisfied at the present day.

To the issues of friendship, love, business and war, "surprise" is the optimistic solution.

My dissatisfaction with television as a medium has nothing to do with the audience or the fact that you don't require as much time to do it as you do a movie, but with its technical limitations.

Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

You don't need people's opinion on a fact.

In a very real sense, we are the authors of our own lives.

Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses.

Resisting overreaching by the federal government is appropriate and, yes, even patriotic.

Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.