The common notions that we find in credit around us and infused into our souls by our fathers' seed, these seem to be the universa...l and natural ones. Whence it comes to pass that what is off the hinges of custom, people believe to be off the hinges of reason.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These examples, though foreign to us, are not strange, if we consider, as our experience often tells us, how custom dulls the sens...es.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Custom calls me to't. What custom wills, in all things should we do't,... The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heaped For truth to o'erpeer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom... More honored in the breach than the observance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Roughly speaking, the President of the United States knows what his job is. Constitution and custom spell it out, for him as well ...as for us. His wife has no such luck. The First Lady has no rules; rather each new woman must make her own.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is pract...icable; and to make this custom the more significant, practise it first upon yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the... very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding--joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in America, alone ... women are raised to an equality with the other sex; and ... both in theory and practice, their interests... are regarded as of equal value. They are made subordinate in station, only where a regard to their best interests demands it, while, as if in compensation for this, by custom and courtesy, they are always treated as superiors. Universally, in this Country, through every class of society, precedence is given to woman, in all the comforts, conveniences, and courtesies of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field... for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »