Ambition

• Seek happiness in tranquility, and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.
• So much has been done, [...] more, far more, will I achieve.
• My life might have been passed in ease and luxury; but I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path. (walton)
• the birth of that passion, which afterwards ruled my destiny
• I find it arise, like a mountain river, [...]swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.
• this was indeed a God-like science, and i ardently desired to become acquainted with it.
• You must create a female for me
• One man's life were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of knowledge which i sought.