The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
Children have but little charity for one another's defects
There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.
When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble.
Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.
All generalizations are false, including this one.