Old habits are strong and jealous.

Old habits are strong and jealous.

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.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
[Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]

The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
[Lat., Vulpem pilum mutare, non mores.]

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger read more

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]

Nothing is stronger than habit.
[Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]

Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]

Habit is, as it were, a second nature.
[Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]