C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Inclination
In this world the inclination to do things is of more importance than the mere power.
Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.
There is no mind so weak and powerless as not to have its inclinations, and none so guarded as to be without its prepossessions.
Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, through the whole course of his life.
From the very first instances of perception, some things are grateful and others unwelcome to us; some things we incline to, and others we fly.
Every one follows the inclinations of his own nature.
If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.