Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

The movement of the progressive societies has hitherto been a movement from Status to Contract.

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

Law is stable the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed.

The Roman Code was merely an enunciation in words of the existing customs of the Roman people.

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

... your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me...

Mythology does not interest me. Nor does history. But the possible overlap between history and mythology excites me immensely.

The Hindu civilisation is a diabolical contrivance to enslave humanity. Its proper name would be infamy.

I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't trust any organization that has a handbook.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

I come from a traditional theater background.

Creative thinking may mean simply the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.