"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."

"The froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as innovation."

"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."

"Laws are made to guard the rights of the people, not to feed the lawyers. The laws should be read by all, known to all. Put them into shape, inform them with philosophy, reduce them in bulk, give them…"

"In studies, whatsoever a man learneth, he must learn it as if he were to teach it."