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

Habit had made the custom. [Lat., Morem fecerat usus.]

Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]

Nothing is stronger than habit. [Lat., Nil consuetudine majus.]

Nor is there any law more just, than that he who has plotted death shall perish by his own plot. [Lat., Neque enim lex est aequior ulla, Quam necis artifices arte perire sua.]

That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]