Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Sometimes he pursued the call into the forest, looking for it as though it were a tangible thing, barking softly or defiantly… Irresistible impulses seized him. he would be lying in camp, dozing lazily in the heat of the day, when suddenly his head would lift and his ears cock up, intent and listening, and he would spring on his feet and dash away, and on and on, for hours, though the forest aisles.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Any impulse of thought which is repeatedly passed on to the subconscious mind is finally accepted and acted upon

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.