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Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom adapts itself to expediency
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
The old ways are the safest and surest ways.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs read more
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.
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.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.
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.
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.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.
