Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom read more

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had, and there is no conceivable human action which custom has not at one time justified and at another condemned

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the read more

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

Custom adapts itself to expediency

Custom adapts itself to expediency

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow--so arbitrary are these transient laws.

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, read more

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.

Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.