The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.