If any habits ever had time to fix upon her things.

They will drive the really non-religious mind out of bed to say prayers that are only a custom and not a devotion.

The victim of habit, when he had neglected the thing which it was his custom to do, feels a little scratching in the brain, a little irritating something which comes of being out of the rut, and images it to be that prick of conscience, the still, small voice that is urging him ever to righteousness.

If the digression is unusual enough, the drag of habit will be heavy enough to cause the unreasoning victim to return and perform the perfunctory thing.

"Now, bless me, as a matter of fact, it has merely done its old, unbreakable trick once again." Carrie had no excellent home principles fixed upon her.