“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

“Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.”

“A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.”

“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”

“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.”

“Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.”

“More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.”

“An angry countenance is much against nature, and it is oftentimes the proper countenance of them that are at the point of death. But were it so, that all anger and passion were so thoroughly quenched in thee, that it were altogether impossible to kindle it any more, yet herein must not thou rest satisfied, but further endeavour by good consequence of true ratiocination, perfectly to conceive and understand, that all anger and passion is against reason.”

“Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…”

“One of the principle causes is that the modern world has made the clerc into a citizen, subject to all the responsibilities of a citizen, and consequently to despise lay passions is far more difficult for him than for his predecessors.”