“What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconci...” — William Godwin Quote

“What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?”

“The lessons of their early youth regulated the conduct of their riper years.”

“How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!”

“I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I am at a loss to account for the existence and arrangement of the visible universe, and, being left in the wide sea of conjecture without a clue from analogy or experience, I find the conjecture of a God easy, obvious, and irresistible.”

“During my academical life, and from this time forward, I was indefatigable in my search after truth. I read all the authors of greatest repute, for and against the Trinity, original sin, and the most disputed doctrines, but I was not yet of an understanding sufficiently ripe for impartial decision, and all my inquiries terminated in Calvinism.”

“The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.”

“Music is not just love for me; it's a way of life, a habit.”

“We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.”

“I went into acting because I was hiding from myself, and although acting has become more of a habit now, I think I am still hiding.”

“Writing stories is the habit of lying put to good use.”

“To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.”

“Procrastination is probably my worst habit out of many. Especially when it comes to paperwork.”