"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…"

"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…"

"It is true that Courts of equity, in administering justice, sometimes go further than the Courts of law."

"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…"