Character Quote by Harriet Martineau

The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

— Mark Twain

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

Adorn thyself with simplicity and with indifference towards the things which lie between virtue and vice. Love mankind. Follow God. The poet says that…

— Marcus Aurelius

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes,…

— H. L. Mencken

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

— Edward Gibbon

“habits of virtue and vice are caused by acts”

— Aristotle

“Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.--Mark Twain”

— Andi Marquette

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom.

— Michel de Montaigne

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

— Robert Bork

The vices and the virtues are written in a language the world cannot construe; it reads them in a vile translation, and the translators…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is a part of the function of "law" to give recognition to ideas representing the exact opposite of established conduct. Most of the…

— Thurman Arnold