To disarm a zealot, teach him truth by precept, and mildness by example.
Magnanimity consists in enduring tactlessness with mildness.
Restrain thy mind, and let mildness ever attend thy tongue.
That energy which veils itself in mildness is most effective of its object.
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.
