Every action
which is not customary either is wrong, or if it is right, is a
dangerous precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done
for the first time.
A principle is a rule of inaction
which states a valid general reason for not doing in any particular
case what would appear to be right.
Source:
Microcosmographia Academica: Being a Guide for the Young Academic
Politician (1908)
