Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,
As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.

A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam read more

Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken
than mended.
[Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum
induerunt.]

Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

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.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

Habits form character and character is destiny.

Habits form character and character is destiny.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.