Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the read more

Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason.

anger is a short time time madness...

anger is a short time time madness...

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you read more

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed read more

Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is weak.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is weak.

Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris.

Men are like steel: when they lose their temper, they lose their worth. -Chuck Norris.

Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth,
And constancy lives in read more

Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth,
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny, and youth is vain;
And to be wrothe with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.