A sense of power is the most intoxicating stimulant a mortal can enjoy.

The unwilling mind is not a teachable mind.

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class.

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

It is cowardly to fly from natural duties and take up those that suit our taste or temperament better; but it is also unwise to take an exaggerated view of personal duties, which shuts out the proper care of the mind and body entrusted to us.

I often think that all the difficulties we encounter only give us the more strength if we keep hold of our work, and we must not now give up while in the prime of life. It is best to keep trying, and by and by the opportunity will come. If we have given up, then we shall not be ready for it when it does come.