Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.
Habit is a form of exercise
Habit is a great deadener.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Habit is a shackle for the free.
Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
Habit is second nature.
Habit is stronger than reason.
Habit is ten times nature.
Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.
Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the number of repeated acts. Habits are also weakened or broken, and contrary habits are formed by the repetition of contrary acts.
Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
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