"The breach of customIs breach of all...." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.”

“It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.”

“Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.”

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

“The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.”

“Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.”

“Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.”

“Believing that anxious thoughts and feelings can restore order to your life is like using a chain-saw to fold your laundry.”

“The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.”