CONVENTIONALITY

Related Subjects: Custom, Fashion, Form, Manners, Morality, Society

1. How many times do we find young men of clear and broad minds who see for themselves the error and the ugliness of all of our conventionalisms; and yet they are hemmed in on every side by parents and friends, every idea, every aspiration is screwed into the strait limits of dogmatic belief.—GAMALIEL BRADFORD
   

2. The virtue in most respects is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.—EMERSON,  Self-Reliance
   

3. What will Mrs. Grundy say? What will Mrs. Grundy think?—THOMAS MORTON, Speed the Plough
   

4. Keep the common road, and thou'rt safe.—Proverb
   

5. The tyranny of Mrs. Grundy is worse than any other tyranny we suffer under.—HERBERT SPENCER, Essays on Education