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

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

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.

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.

Isn’t it better just to make your own money, and then spend it how and when you want, and with dignity?

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did.

Nature has an incredible capacity for regeneration and growth, but we can't experience it if we stay fearful and focused on lack.

By proving contraries, truth is made manifest.

I read Stephen King a lot and I've actually played two roles. Delores Claiborne is my favorite, I think, of any film that I've done.

Be curious. Be constantly, consistently, indiscriminatel y curious.

Synergy - the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously.

I can be very reactionary. It's a gift and a curse.