"Customs will often outlive the remembrance of..." - Quote by Thomas Paine

“Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.”

“Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.”

“Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.”

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

“Habit is, as it were, a second nature.[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]”

“Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid.”

“The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.”

“If is a custom,More honor'd in the breach than the observance.”

“The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.”