Custom is the great guide to human life

Custom is the great guide to human life

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

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious read more

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot

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.