Essays in a Series of Letters, 29th ed. (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1861), Essay I, "On a Man's Writing Memoirs of Himself," Letter VI, p. 50

In the great majority of things, habit is a greater plague than ever afflicted Egypt: in religious character, it is eminently a felicity. The devout man exults to feel that in aid of the simple force of the divine princi…