Abigail Adams Calm Quotations

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life ... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.