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There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in read more
There is nothing that strengthens a nation like reading of a nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books or embodied in customs, institutions and monuments.
Custom is the great guide to human life
Custom is the great guide to human life
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
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
Ancient custom has the force of law.
Ancient custom has the force of law.
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.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
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.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
