The will that yields the first time with some reluctance does so the second time with less hesitation, and the third time with none at all, until presently the habit is adopted.—­Henry Giles.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.—­Colton.

Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, binding a deathless being to eternal felicity or woe.—­Mrs. Sigourney.

I will be a slave to no habit; therefore farewell tobacco.—­Hosea Ballou.

Happiness.—­He who is good is happy.—­HABBINGTON.

If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies;
And they are fools who roam: 
The world has nothing to bestow,
From our own selves our joys must flow,
And that dear hut, our home. 
—­Cotton.

The common course of things is in favor of happiness; happiness is the rule, misery the exception.  Were the order reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want.—­Paley.

Happiness and virtue react upon each other,—­the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.—­Lytton.

God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with making themselves miserable.  The idolaters thought it a fit service for Baal to cut and lance themselves; never any holy man looked for thanks from the true God by wronging himself.—­Bishop Hall.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit!—­Hosea Ballou.

Degrees of happiness vary according to the degrees of virtue, and consequently, that life which is most virtuous is most happy.—­Norris.

Without strong affection, and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is mercy, and whose great attribute is benevolence to all things that breathe, true happiness can never be attained.—­Dickens.

The utmost we can hope for in this world is contentment; if we aim at anything higher, we shall meet with nothing but grief and disappointment.  A man should direct all his studies and endeavors at making himself easy now and happy hereafter.—­Addison.

To be happy is not only to be freed from the pains and diseases of the body, but from anxiety and vexation of spirit; not only to enjoy the pleasures of sense, but peace of conscience and tranquillity of mind.  —­Tillotson.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally.  Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.  Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.—­Hawthorne.