Letter to John Quincy Adams (19 January 1780)
Interview with Bill Moyers http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_leonard.html, Now, PBS (28 November 2003)
Context: The words, the style always reflects a habit of mind. And the habit of mind comes in from a different angle. The habit of mind uses the colloquial here and uses the joke there. And then creates some discordant music and then something strange and wonderful happens.
And you see things differently. You see a different light is shed on it.
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. Verulam Viscount St. Albans (1857), Of Empire
[Swami Aseshananda, Glimpses of a Great Soul; a Portrait of Swami Saradananda, 43]
Dover 2005, p. 162
The Ego and Its Own (1845)
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“The enthusiasm for goodness which shows that it is not the habit of the mind.”
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
“The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.”
