Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
G. Stanley HallNormal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.
G. Stanley HallThis splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
G. Stanley HallMuscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. They have built all the roads, cities and machines in the world, written all the books, spoken all the words, and, in fact done everything that man has accomplished with matter. Character might be a sense defined as a plexus of motor habits.
G. Stanley Hall