It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.
A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
Habits change into character.
When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.
In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.