Labor is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of the will..
I get a little itchy if I don't have some control..
When we have the Spirit to direct us, we are capable of teaching with great power..
Our power is in our ability to decide..
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance b….
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes..
Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?.
Scholarship, save by accident, is never the measure of a man's power..
The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried..
Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old..
Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer i….
Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money..
Power educates the potentate..
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power..
There is never a beginning, there is never an end, to the inexplicable continuity of this web of God, but always circular power returning into itself..
Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight..
He only is a well-made man who has a good determination. And the end of culture is not to destroy this, God forbid! but to train away all impediment ….
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first..
Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.
Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power..
A good indignation brings out all one's powers..