“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common”

“Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day”

“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life”

“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them”

“Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.”

“It is not well to make great changes in old age”