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.

Custom adapts itself to expediency

Custom adapts itself to expediency

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

The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

The old ways are the safest and surest ways.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let read more

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

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.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its read more

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.