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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Prayer is the difference between seeing with our physical eyes and seeing with our spiritual eyes.

Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don't spend your time on your needs if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean and walk!

I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.

The walk downstairs to the breakfast table is excercise enough for any gentleman.

My dads my best mate, and he always will be.

My mom cooked the same food every day - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was enchiladas, it was - tortillas, beans and meat. If it was burritos, it was still - tortillas, beans and meat.

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!

If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.