The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.

- Edward Coke

Things are worth what they will fetch at a sale.

- Edward Coke

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

- Edward Coke

Magna Charta is such a fellow, that he will have no sovereign.

- Edward Coke

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

- Edward Coke

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.

- Edward Coke

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions.

- 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

So use your own property as not to injure that of another.

- Edward Coke

Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.

- Edward Coke

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.

- Edward Coke

Success in crime always invites to worse deeds.

- Edward Coke

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

- Edward Coke

Those who consent to the act and those who do it shall be equally punished.

- 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

Where there are many counsellors there is safety.

- Edward Coke