A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Great men are sincere.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

If I am the devil's child, I will live then, by the devil.

Art, in the artist, is proportion, or, a habitual respect to the whole by an eye loving beauty in details. And the wonder and charm of it is the sanity in insanity which it denotes.