"Never can custom conquer nature, for she..." - Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.”

“A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over to old age a worn-out body.”

“Dum Spiro, spero- As long as I breathe, I hope.”

“The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.”

“So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.”

“I want to create a cat like the real cats I see crossing the streets, not like those you see in houses. They have nothing in common. The cat of the streets has bristling fur. It runs like a fiend, and if it looks at you, you think it is going to jump in your face.”

“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.”

“The breach of customIs breach of all.”

“Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.”