Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Habit and imitation are the source of all working and all apprenticeship, of all practice and all learning, in this world. Carlyle.

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best 10 nightcap. Kincaid.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. St. Augustine.

Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. Horace Mann.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Pascal.

Habit is necessary to give power. Hazlitt.

Habit is ten times nature. Wellington. 15

Habit is the deepest law of human nature. Carlyle.

Habit is the purgatory in which we suffer for our past sins. George Eliot.

Habit is too arbitrary a master for my liking. Lavater.