Resist beginnings it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

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

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

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