Who said “If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by…”?

“Laws are never as effective as habits.”

“Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.”

“Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.”

“Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.”

“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.”

“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”

“It is well to think well. It is divine to act well.”

“To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”

“Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.”

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.”