"Amendments ought not to be made, except in cases where the alteration is of such a nature as that no one can be misle…"

"Inconvenience arising from the operation of an Act of Parliament can be no ground of argument in a Court of law."

"No man can come into a British Court of justice to seek the assistance of the law who founds his claim upon a contrav…"

"In matters where a company is not restrained by Parliament they have a right to make reasonable regulations; but it w…"

"When Courts adopt a fiction they must necessarily support it."

"The act of a single Judge, unless adopted by the Court to which he belongs, is of no validity. As the Courts do not s…"

"I will not say that a witness shall not be asked to what may tend to disparage him: that would prevent an investigati…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"