“The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.” ArtDesireStrongHabitArt IsDelightExtremesDenialVery StrongTobaccoSmokersFruitionMalaise Author:C. S. Lewis
“No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober. Such reforms can only be effected by means of individual action, economy and self-denial; by better habits, rather than by greater rights.” MeanSelfActionLawIndividualEconomyGreaterRightsHabitReformDenialIdleSoberIndustriousSelf-denial Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance