custom quotes

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.