“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”

“Look round the habitable world, how fewKnow their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!”

“We first make our habits and then our habits make us.”

“Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.”

“For whatsoe'er their sufferings were before,That change they covet makes them suffer more.All other errors but disturb a state;But innovation is the blow of fate.”

“Welcome, thou kind deceiver!Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key,Dost open life, and, unperceived by us,Even steal us from ourselves.”

“For you may palm upon us new for old:All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.”