The languages of classical antiquity are almost indispensable helps to all sound acquirements in Politics, Jurisprudence, or any of the Moral Sciences. They are also requisite for the formation of those elevated sentiments, and that rectitude of judgment and taste, which are inseparably connected with them. These languages may be acquired, and in fact are acquired, when well acquired, in early youth.
(John Austin, The Uses of the Study of Jurisprudence, in The Province of Jurisprudence Determined and The Uses of the Study of Jurisprudence [Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1998 (essay first published in 1863)], 363-93, at 385)
