"Men are like steel — when they lose their temper, they lose their worth."

"Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circum…"

"Good temper, like a sunny day, sheds a brightness over everything; it is the sweetener of toil and the soother of dis…"

"The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune."

"A man of knowledge uses words with restraint, and a man of understanding is even-tempered."

"Courtesy of temper, when it is used to veil churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a bas…"

"If you enjoy watching birds, you stand in good company. There are, in the estimate of the National Survey on Recreati…"

"Birds become more and more fascinating, not less, the more you watch them."

"It is a fun exercise among s to try to pinpoint a childhood moment when they deviated from the path of “ordinary” peo…"

"But since it was birders he was dealing with, there wasn’t any harm just letting us in on the honor system. There was…"