"Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware that they carry their anger rather with scorn than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it."

"The Scripture exhorteth us To possess our souls in patience. Whosoever is out of patience, is out of possession of his soul."

"We will first speak how the natural inclination and habit to be angry may be attempered and calmed. Secondly, how the particular motions of anger may be repressed, or at least refrained from doing mischief. Thirdly, how to raise anger or appease anger in another. For the first; there is no other way but to meditate and ruminate well upon the effects of anger, how it troubles man's life. And the best time to do this, is to look back upon anger when the fit is thoroughly over. Seneca saith well, That anger is like ruin, which breaks itself upon that it falls."

"Be angry, but sin not. Let not the sun go down upon your anger. Anger must be limited and confined both in race and in time."

"To seek to extinguish Anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics."

"Anyone can become angry, that is easy...but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way... this is not easy."

"Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason."

"She could never rid herself of the sense that unhappiness was a state of disease – of suffering as opposed to doing. To "do" – it hardly mattered what – would therefore be an escape, perhaps in some degree a remedy."

"The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before."

"On dit que dans ses amours Il fut caressé des belles, Qui le suivirent toujours, Tant qu'il marcha devant elles."

"Heroes themselves had fallen behind! —Whene'er he went before."

"To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so."

""Not to admire, is all the art I know (Plain truth, dear Murray, needs few flowers of speech) To make men happy, or to keep them so," (So take it in the very words of Creech) Thus Horace wrote we all know long ago; And thus Pope quotes the precept to re-teach From his translation; but had none admired, Would Pope have sung, or Horace been inspired?"

"Season your admiration for awhile."

"You always admire what you really don't understand."

"We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire."

"For fools admire, but men of sense approve."

"How vain painting is, exciting admiration by its resemblance to things of which we do not admire the originals."

"Few men have been admired by their own households."

"Beauty stands in the admiration only of weak minds led captive."

"Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle."

"Admiration is the emotion furthest from comprehension."

"The staleness of custom weakens admiration, and a mediocrity that's new often eclipses the highest excellence grown old."

"Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run."

"No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life."

"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness."

"Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire."

"Admiration, n Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."

"My dear, I find your blind admiration for me both flattering and disturbing."

"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."

"Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view."

"Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs in the biography of souls."

"I do not say the mind gets informed by action, — bodily action; but it does get earnestness and strength by it, and that nameless something that gives a man the mastership of his faculties."

"When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ."

"Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; do thou but thine."

"Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?"

"I have never heard any thing about the resolutions of the disciples, but a great deal about the Acts of the Apostles."

"Haste thee on from grace to glory, Armed by faith and winged by prayer, Heaven's eternal day's before thee; God's own hand shall guide thee there."

"The history of the Church of Christ from the days of the Apostles has been a history of spiritual movements."

"The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance."

"The essential elements of giving are power and love — activity and affection — and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other."

"All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power."

"Let us remember that Elijah's God was with him only while he was occupied in noble and effectual services. When thus engaged, he exulted in the conscious majesty of a life which had upon it the stamp and signature of Divine power."

"I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate."

"Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."

"It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it."

"What is done is done; has already blended itself with the boundless, ever living, ever working universe, and will also work there for good or evil, openly or secretly, throughout all time."