A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is odious in the former, and contemptible in the latter

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its conseq

I knew he had a short temper, but I never thought he would take something that far. He could have come to me for help. He didn't even tell me anything.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.