The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied

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?

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.

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

Never underestimate the power of denial.

Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest.

My favorite sexual position is when the girl is facing Mecca and I am fighting off a wolf.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple.

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

Distance cannot matter - ours is a friendship of the heart.