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.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to read more

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Custom adapts itself to expediency

Custom adapts itself to expediency

Ancient custom has the force of law.

Ancient custom has the force of law.

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the read more

Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feelings and our manners and rules the world with the hand of a despot.

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.

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.

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

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