The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Habit, my friend, is practice long pursued, that at last becomes man himself.

Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

The guilty catch themselves.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; the thief doth fear each bush an officer.

Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Children are natural mimics; they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners.