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 principles within him, there has grown by time an accessional power, which has almost taken place of his will, and holds a firm though quiet domination through the general action of his mind. He feels this confirmed habit as the grasp of the hand of God, which will never let him go. From this advanced state he looks with confidence on futurity, and says, I carry the indelible mark upon me that I belong to God; by being devoted to him I am free of the universe; and I am ready to go to any world to which he shall please to transmit me, certain that every where, in height or depth, he will acknowledge me for ever.
John Foster — 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
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