Custom is the Guide of the Ignorant

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

Different languages, different food, different customs. That’s our neighborhood: wild and tangled and colorful. Like the best kind of garden.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason

Custom is almost a second nature.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.

There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for all on a given day to a person whose sorrow will endure as long as his life.

The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo

The works and customs of mankind do not seem to be very suitable material to which to apply scientific induction.

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.