Quotes
<< Prev
Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it
Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall
When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.
Search
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays