September 19

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.—ECCL. vii, 9.

Of all bad things by which mankind is curst, Their own bad tempers surely are the worst.

MENANDER.

There is not in nature A thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, As doth intemperate anger.

JOHN WEBSTER.

If anger rises suddenly and violently, first restrain it with consideration, and then let it end in a hearty prayer for him that did the real or seeming injury. The former of the two stops its growth, and the latter quite kills it, and makes amends for its monstrous and in- voluntary birth.

JEREMY TAYLOR.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

TILLOTSON.

There is a disease called "touchiness"—a disease which, in spite of its innocent name, is one of the gravest sources of restlessness in the world. Touchi- ness, when it becomes chronic, is a morbid condition of the inward disposition. It is self-love inflamed to the acute point. . . . The cure is to shift the yoke to some other place; to let men and things touch us through some new and perhaps as yet unused part of our na- ture; to become meek and lowly in heart, while the old nature is becoming numb from want of use.

HENRY DRUMMOND.