No Man Is The Wiser For His

Equity Is A Roguish Thing. For Law We Have A Measure, Know What To Trust To; Equity Is According To The Conscience Of Him That Is Chancellor, And As That Is Larger Or Narrower, So Is Equity. 't Is All One As If They Should Make The Standard For The Measure We Call A "foot" A Chancellor's Foot; What An Uncertain Measure Would This Be! One Chancellor Has A Long Foot, Another A Short Foot, A Third An Indifferent Foot. 't Is The Same Thing In The Chancellor's Conscience.

Never Tell Your Resolution Beforehand, Or It's Twice As Onerous A Duty.

We Look After Religion As The Butcher Did After His Knife, When He Had It In His Mouth.

Ignorance Of The Law Excuses No Man; Not That All Men Know The Law, But Because 'tis An Excuse Every Man Will Plead, And No Man Can Tell How To Refute Him.

Fine Wits Destroy Themselves With Their Own Plots, In Meddling With Great Affairs Of State.