“Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.”

“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.”

“In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.”

“Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.”

“In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.”

“Consequently, we should try as much as possible to maintain a high degree of health; for cheerfulness is the very flower of it.”

“I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.”