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

“Custom reconciles us to everything.”

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

“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.”

“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”

“If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.”

“Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.”

“A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.”

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”

“Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.”