Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.
The entire world would perish, if pity were not to limit anger.
Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.
Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Anger is like a ruin, which, in falling upon its victim, breaks itself to pieces.
