I am not for stirring a single pebble of the common law. - John Eardley Wilmot

God forbid that the rights of the innocent should be lost and destroyed by the offence of individuals.

There is no merit in a settlement: it depends upon positive law.

I have always thought that formerly there was too confined a way of thinking in the Judges of the common law Courts, and that Courts of equity have risen by the Judges not properly applying the principles of the common law, being too narrowly governed by old cases and maxims, which have too much prevented the public from having the benefit of the common law.