Young man! Be wise and cautious: pay attention from the years of your youth towards creating good habits! Habits have a similar power with that of natural characteristics: whoever is following the way of our Lord Jesus Christ is obliged to acquire good habits and beware of the bad ones.

Young man! Be wise and cautious: pay attention from the years of your youth towards creating good habits, because when you will be older you will enjoy the treasure acquired without effort since the youth.

(Translated from Sfântul Ignatie Briancianinov, Cuvinte către cei care vor să se mântuiască, traducere de Adrian si Xenia Tănăsescu-Vlas, Editura Sophia, Bucureşti, 2000, p. 44)