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should freely forgive, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Charles Caleb Colton.

When anger rises, think of the consequences. Confucius.

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Had I a careful and pleasant companion, that should show me my angry face in a glass,I should not at all take it ill. Some are wont to have a looking-glass held to them whilethey wash, though to little purpose; but to behold a mans self so unnaturally disguisedand disordered, will conduce not a little to the impeachment of anger.

Plutarch .

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To be angry, is to revenge the faults of others upon ourselves.Alexander Pope.

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If anger is not restrained, it is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokesit.

Seneca.

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Anger is a transient hatred; or, at least, very like it.Robert South.

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It might have pleased in the heat and hurry of his rage, but must have displeased in cool,sedate reflection.

Robert South.

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Anger is like the waves of a troubled sea; when it is corrected with a soft reply, as witha little strand, it retires, and leaves nothing behind but froth and shells no permanentmischief.

Jeremy Taylor.

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The anger of an enemy represents our faults or admonishes us of our duty with moreheartiness than the kindness of a friend.

Jeremy Taylor.

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Be careful to discountenance in children anything that looks like rage and furious anger.John Tillotson.

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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and tomaintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and

suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. Dr. Isaac Watts.

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Adam Smith, in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, seems to consider as the chief point of distinction between anger and hatred, the necessity to the gratification of the former thatthe object of it should not only be punished, but punished by means of the offended

person, and on account of the particular injury inflicted. Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrongwhich has been done by him. The natural gratification of this passion tends, of its ownaccord, to produce all the political ends of punishment: the correction of the criminal,and example to the public.

Richard Whately: Annot. on Bacons Essay, Of Anger.

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Aristotle, in his Rhetoric, defines anger to be a desire, accompanied by mentaluneasiness, of avenging ones self, or, as it were, inflicting punishment for somethingthat appears an unbecoming slight, either in things which concern ones self, or some of ones friends. And he hence infers that, if this be ange r, it must be invariably felttowards some individual, not against a class or description of persons.

Richard Whately: Annot. on Bacons Essay, Of Anger