If the human being is condemned and restricted to perform the same functions over and over again, he will not even be a good ant, not to mention a good human being.

Routine is the god of every social system; it is the seventh heaven of business, the essential component in the success of every factory, the ideal of every statesman. The social machine should run like clockwork.

Men fall into a routine when they are tired and slack: it has all the appearance of activity with few of its burdens.

It is the leisured, I have noticed, who rebel the most at an interruption of routine.

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

There is comfort in routine.