Quote of the Day (William James, on Life as a ‘Mass of Habits’)

“Our virtues are habits as much as our vices. All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits,—practical, emotional, and intellectual,—systematically organized for our weal or woe, and bearing us irresistibly toward our destiny, whatever the latter may be.” —American philosopher William James (1842-1910), The Principles of Psychology (1890)

Joke of the Day (Mark Twain, on What Needs Most Reforming)

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.” ― American novelist and humorist Mark Twain (1835-1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

Quote of the Day (Anthony Trollope, on Habit)

“Habit is second nature, man; and a stronger nature than the first.” ―Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (1858)