Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is 'ten times nature'.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea... The islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

New habits can be launched.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

We all have a lifelong habit of inferiority to our full self..."

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.