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

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.

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.

It's a strange grief… to die of nostalgia for something you you will never live.

And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?

sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

We need military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism.

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.

You treat me like a dog and you expect me to smile? You remind me of a jackass.

Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.