“If I am asked a question of common law, I should be an ass to answer it without looking at my books.”— Edward Coke
“I was in the beginning of my studies, a great admirer of the writings of the ancients, and did create a world of trouble to myself by it.”— Nicholas Culpeper
“In any case, the study of politics is the study of the ways and means by which men are governed and govern themselves.”— Charles Edward Merriam
“History is a great deal more than the simple chronological record of events; it is the study of the human past.”— Alfred Leslie Rowse
“Certainly in my opinion, to be able to do this, one must have seen the statues of the ancients, nay, have seen them with the eye of a connoisseur.”— Peter Paul Rubens
“Patience is the chiefest fruit of study. A man that strives to make himself a different thing from other men by much reading, gains this chiefest good.”— John Selden
“Study, my son. I do not say that this will make you great, but it will make you less unhappy.”— Edmondo De Amicis
“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly.”— Alexander Hamilton