Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. [ Ovid ]

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. [ Juvenal ]

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. [ Burke ]

The passion of hatred is so durable and so inveterate that the surest prognostic of death in a sick man is a wish for reconciliation. [ Bruyere ]

Enthusiasm is an evil much less to be dreaded than superstition. Superstition is the disease of nations; enthusiasm that of individuals: the former grows inveterate by time: the latter is cured by it. [ Robert Hall ]

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. [ Diogenes ]

The love of a mother is never exhausted; it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands; but a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; she still remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of Iris childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. [ W. Irving ]