“It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.”

“Don't be too quick
To break bad habits: better stick,
Like the Mission folk, to your arsenic.”

“It is hard to change long-established building habits; such habits sometimes endure for ages in certain localities with little or no change. It is, however, easy for new communities to acquire bad building habits.”

“I tried very hard. But I can't help it. The Fates are cruel. They sent you to me, my brave one, knowing that you would break my heart.”

“One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.”

“To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.”

“Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.”

“I think it's very hard to allow God to break us. I think it's very hard to be broken. And I think that who the Lord loves He chastens, and that if we'll never be broken we'll never be saved. And that God doesn't break us because He hates us, or because He's angry at us, but we have to be broken, just like you have to break a horse.”

“After a hard frost a man might wake in the morning and find he was breaking a covenant.”

“I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people.”