“Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object
“Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyed
“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks
“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common
“The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse
“Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life
“The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.