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There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws.
— Edward Coke
Everyone thirsteth after gaine.
— Edward Coke
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
— Edward Coke
One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.
— Edward Coke
A corporation has no soul.
— Edward Coke
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
— William Shakespeare
Precaution is better than a cure.
— Edward Coke
The house of every one is to him as his castle.
— Edward Coke
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
— Edward Coke
None shall take advantage of his own wrong.
— Edward Coke
Precaution is better than cure.
— Edward Coke
Common law is common right.
— Edward Coke
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix.
— Edward Coke
The gladsome light of jurisprudence.
— Edward Coke
Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.
— Edward Coke
Law is the safest helmet.
— Edward Coke
He is not cheated who knows he is being cheated.
— Edward Coke
The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.
— Edward Coke
Force ought to follow justice and not to precede.
— Edward Coke
A witch is a person who hath conference with the Devil to consult with him or to do some act.
— Edward Coke
For a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique tutissimum refugium [and one's home is the safest refuge to everyone].
— Edward Coke
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.
— Edward Coke
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.
— Edward Coke
We have a maxim in the House of Commons, and written on the walls of our houses, that old ways are the safest and surest ways.
— Edward Coke
Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.
— Edward Coke
Where there are many counsellors there is safety.
— Edward Coke
Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.
— Edward Coke
For a man's house is his castle.
— Edward Coke