The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Every quotation a nineteenth-century speaker or writer might want, grouped under its subject, with the author, the date and the source given as exactly as Hoyt could manage.

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Quotes by Sir Edward Coke

6 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

For a man's house is his castle. la— filed under Home
The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.— filed under Home
March 1, 1886. Magna Charta is such a fellow that he will have no sovereign.— filed under Occupations-Law
Commons. May 17, 1628. Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason. *** The law which is perfection of reason.— filed under Occupations-Law
The gladsome light of jurisprudence. C.— filed under Occupations-Law
Lover. A corporation has no soul.— filed under Sorrow
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