Who said “Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.”?

“Custom reconciles us to everything.”

“Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.”

“Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.”

“Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.”

“Laws are subordinate to custom.”

“It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.”

“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.”

“He is happy, whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is more excellent, who can suit his temper to any circumstances.”

“Avarice, the spur of industry.”

“The law always limits every power it gives.”

“And what is the greatest number? Number one.”