Men are like steel. When they lose their temper they lose their worth.

There's no question that as science knowledge and technology advance that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed he explained so he did not weep.

There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems which are already over stressed and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

The ingredients of health and long life are great temperance open air easy labor and little care.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

Age does not depend upon years but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old and some never grow so.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry lost knowledge by study lost health by temperance or medicine but lost time is gone forever.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored and life is only too short and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy amused way.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

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

Power must be used but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil that there must be opposition between its various branches and between political parties for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom.

Forgiveness is an act of the will and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.