Famous quotes containing the words customs and/or agent:
“The customs of some savage nations might, perchance, be profitably imitated by us, for they at least go through the semblance of casting their slough annually; they have the idea of the thing, whether they have the reality or not.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)