When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of vigor can sometimes support a debilitated body, but most often it manages to deal it the final blow.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

All power is of one kind, a sharing of the nature of the world. The mind that is parallel with the laws of nature will be in the current of events, and strong with their strength.

Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which it is not lodged,-that no honest seeking goes unrewarded.

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

Oh, it is vile for a man, if he be noble, And when he has won to the heights of power, To put on new manners for old and change His countenance.

Power gives no purchase to the hand, it will not hold, soon perishes, and greatness goes.

Power is not something that can be assumed or discarded at will like underwear.

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.