You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day.
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.
It is God's giving if we laugh or weep.
A broad-backed ox can be driven straight on his road even by a small goad.