"Virtuous actions are necessarily approved by the awakened conscience; and when they are approved, they are commended to practice; and when they are practised, they become easy; and when they become easy, they afford pleasure; and when they afford pleasure, they are done frequently; and when they are done frequently, they are confirmed by habit: and confirmed habit is a kind of second nature."Inst., p. 246.

But habit, you see, is an action in present circumstances from past motives.

Now habit is a labor-saving invention which enables a man to get along with less fuel,that is all; for fuel is force, you know, just as much in the page I am writing for you as in the locomotive or the legs that carry it to you.

I have said something of the S. Croce habit and the S. Maria Novella habit; but I think that when all is said the S. Miniato habit is the most important to acquire.

His habit is a long gown, made at first to cover his knavery, but that growing too monstrous, he now goes in buff; his conscience and that being both cut out of one hide, and are of one toughness.

It is true, some of the oldest of the blacks had once some vague notions on the subject; but their recollections had become obscured by time, and habit was truly second nature with all of the light-hearted race.

It was currently reported that Joshua's habit of endlessly retracting and qualifying every idea and modification of an idea which he advanced, so as to commit himself to nothing, was the effect of Aunt Lyddy's careful revision.

In our other activities habit is largely a matter of muscular adaptation, but the bodily movements of politics occur so seldom that nothing like a habit can be set up by them.

One is quite safe in declaring that habit is the great flywheel that regulates society.

* Memory Gem: Habit is a cable.

Habit and necessity are powerful masters.

" I quote these to show that the habit was Shakspeare's.

The free and frank habits that prevail among relatives and friends elsewhere, are nearly unknown there, every service having its price.

The habit of reading, in the cars or elsewhere, the daily paper and poorly printed books, with their blurred and indistinct type, is a severe strain on the accommodation apparatus of the eyes.

The brown habit of the Capuchins was his dress, and his cowl was drawn so well over his head that only his eyes were visiblethose eyes which stand out so strangely in the many portraits which are still the proud possession of Venice.

I do not here allude to those monsters in human nature, whose besotted habits have been the frequent cause of the suffocation and death of their offspring, but to the more careful and tender mother, who would sooner injure herself than her own child.

The habits of men are a curious mixture of sense and the want of it.

The warlike habits of our ancestors are always attractive topics for inquirers into the history of mankind, and their study is not Dull and crabbed as some fools suppose, but a treasury or depository of useful knowledge, by enabling the inquirer to draw many valuable inferences from the comparative states of men in the several ages he seeks to illustrate.

The human body is a machine which may be adjusted to a high degree of nicety, and habit is the mechanism by which this adjustment is made.

But whether we go these lengths or not, we must all admit that in natural science the habit gained of dealing with facts is a most valuable discipline, and that every one should have some experience of it.

Habit and public opinion are strong restrainers, stronger sometimes than even the most carefully inculcated abstract principles.

As habit becomes character, so expression hardens into feature.

Habits of punctuality, thoroughness, and order are the outcome of life in this institution.

He was an undoubted marksman, and his habit of carrying about pistols, and use of them wherever he went, was often a source of annoyance and alarm.

Habit is for him a safe guide for life, although it does not go beyond probabilities; absolute knowledge is unattainable for us, but not indispensable.