I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit, like all husbands.

But 'twas a maxim he had often tried,
That right was right, and there he would abide.

So strong is habit in tender years.

Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger,
And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

I believed in childhood by authority, in youth by sentiment, in my mature years by reason; now I believe because I have always believed.

I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.

Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.

Habit is Heaven's own redress:
it takes the place of happiness.

From a very early age, I was made to believe that I can.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar.

No don't you know my daddy told me,
Told me right from the start
About youth.
He said no matter how old a man is,
He's partly a boy in his heart.
Yeah, and that's the truth.