Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.
Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is usually made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Each year one vicious habit rooted out, In time might make the worst Man good throughout.
‘Tis easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.