Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
Nothing is more powerful than custom or habit.
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.
We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
People should not expect the state to protect them from fraudsters. If we do, we get into the habit of neglecting our own powers of intellectual discernment.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Where nationally televised news had been a once-nightly ritual, it has since grown into a 24-hour-a-day habit, available on channels devoted entirely and ceaselessly to its dissemination.
By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.
In our urge to automate, in our eagerness to adopt the latest innovations, we appear to have developed a habit of unthinkingly handing over power to machines.
The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
You know, I'm almost out of the habit of watching episodic television now.
Habit is the nursery of errors.
Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
