C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Tradition
Tradition wears a snowy beard.
Whittier.
There is only one thing better than tradition, and that is the original and eternal life out of which all tradition takes its rise.
Lowell.
What an enormous “camera-obscura” magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory, in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it; and in the darkness in the entire ignorance, without date or document, no book, no Arundel marble, only here and there some dull monumental cairn!
Carlyle.