Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the read more

Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with read more

They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it

My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any read more

My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any read more

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Men lose their tempers in defending their taste.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.