“A man's fate is his own temper.”

“Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.”

“In a scientific worldview, man determines his own fate by fighting for freedom from any kind of spiritual enslavement.”

“Man may […] be master of his fate, but he has a precious poor servant. It is easier to command a lapdog or a mule for a whole day than one's own fate for half-an-hour.”

“A man with wife and daughters has no place losing his temper.”

“When a man wears his pants that tight, they tend to pinch his balls, and that tends to pinch his temper.”

“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

“A bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.”

“And every man, in love or pride,
Of his fate is ever wide.”

“Deep in the man sits fast his fate
To mould his fortunes, mean or great.”