No man has a surplus of power: meaning by power— time, talents, money, influence. - Thomas Fowell Buxton

The longer I live the more certain I am that the great difference between men, the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy and invincible determination – a purpose once fixed and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged creature a man without it.

In this world I shall never be anything but a mere moderate– behind the foremost, and before the last.

How wonderful are the ways of the Lord (God); how sweet his mercies, how terrible his judgements!