“How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?”

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don’t get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

am human: nothing human is alien to me.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Their silence is enough praise.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

The less my hope, the hotter my love.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

Fortune helps the brave.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Charity begins at home.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

To bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn … seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

The National Targeting Center in Virginia run by Customs and Border Protection checks the background of every traveler who seeks to enter the country.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

Whatever may be the laws and customs of a country, women always give the tone to morals.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

The Roman state stands by ancient customs, and its manhood.