“Any the smallest alteration of my silent daily habits produces anarchy in me”
“I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ”
“Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.”
“I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple. ”
“The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.”
“Habits are patterns, and even the smallest ones tell a lot about who you are as a person.”