Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and intention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the actual possession of them, as he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.