The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.
The ancient Roman code belongs to a class of which almost every civilised nation in the world can show a sample, and which, so far as the Roman and Hellenic worlds were concerned, were largely diffused over them at epochs not widely distant from one another.
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.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Any stigma will do to beat a dogma.
I need hardly say that the publication of the Twelve Tables is not the earliest point at which we can take up the history of law.
The greatest men, you can quote for everything.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.