There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

There is no tyrant like custom, and no freedom where its edicts are not resisted.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.