Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

All art is but imitation of nature.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.