“The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in...” — Henry James Sumner Maine Quote

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

“The most celebrated system of jurisprudence known to the world begins, as it ends, with a Code.”

“The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough.”

“The way that Lucasfilm used ILM was George never restricted his thinking to things that he knew could be executed with the tools at the time. He would write what he thought would be cool and what he wanted from a storytelling standpoint with the assumption that, 'Well, they'll figure it out!'”