Everybody is presumed to know the law except His Majesty's judges, who have a Court of Appeal set over them to put them right.

"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.

Nominal damages are in effect, only a peg to hang costs on.

After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.

An enactment for the favour and liberty of the subject ought to have a liberal construction.

Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

Take therefore no thought of the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Mayor [Rudy] Giuliani is here, worked very well in New York. It brought the crime rate way down. But you take the gun away from criminals that shouldn't be having it.

If Americans are to read something that is difficult, they will only do so supposing they will be admired for having done it.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

Only the small things in life are important

Start-up should focus on innovation not on building on infrastructure. Thanks to Google cloud service they can.

I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .