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.

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.

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.

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.

There are always two sides to a story.

What I wear on and off stage is my mask. You see, a mask doesn't hide you, it exposes you.

…But so few of us think clearly about our own private incomes, and admit that independent thoughts are in nine cases out of ten the result of independent means.

My dad was a pastor, so we were in church all the time.

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.

The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

Go to the people and live among them in order to know them and learn from them.