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.

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.

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.

God knows us more than we know Him.

You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb.

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there.

I wasn't good at being affable. You get beyond that and realise the attraction in any human being has more to do with what they give to someone rather than just being face candy.

What I try to do is give each actor an environment in which they can do their best work.

Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.

[Humor] could be dicey for a therapist and needs to be used very deftly.

Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

I had no taste for defeat - much less victory - without a fight.