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.

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.

Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.

Good intentions but bad results; bad results but lessons learned. There is a dark corner on every task beautiful and a beautiful corner on every task dark.

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.

There is incredible value in being of service to others.

If Iraq's weapons are weapons of mass destruction, surely ours are weapons of growth and nurturing.

The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?