Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. – Voltaire

Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. – Robert Ingersoll, Individuality

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes. – Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.