Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. - Horace Mann

The creation is a museum, all full, and crowded with wonders and beauties and glories. One door, and one only is open, by which you can enter this magnificent temple. It is the door of Knowledge. The learned laborer, the learned peasant, or slave, is ever made welcome at this door, while the ignorant, though kings, are shut out.

Habits are like a cable. We weave a strand of it every day and soon it cannot be broken.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.