ambition, n.All

Ambition is as hollow as the soul of an echo.

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.

Ambition is but greed on stilts, and masked.

Ambition is always lawful except when it climbs upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Ambition is a sort of work.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme... to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Ambition is a vague torment.