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Habit with him was all the test of truth;
"It must be right: I've done it from my youth."
Habit with him was all the test of truth;
"It must be right: I've done it from my youth."
Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
In ways and thoughts of weakness and of wrong,
Threads turn to cords, and cords to cables strong.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.
The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.
The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.