"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone lead life to sovereign power."
The bravest trophy ever man obtained
Is that which o'er himself himself hath gained.
EARL OF STIRLING.
Real glory springs from the conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is naught but the veriest slave.—THOMSON.
Whatever day makes man a slave takes half his worth away.—ODYSSEY.
Chain up the unruly legion of thy breast. Lead thine own captivity captive, and be Caesar within thyself.—THOMAS BROWNE.
He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.—MILTON.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty: and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.—BIBLE.
Self-trust is of the essence of heroism.—EMERSON.
Man who man would be
Must rule the empire of himself.
P. B. SHELLEY.
"Ah! Diamond, you little know the mischief you have wrought," said Sir Isaac Newton, returning from supper to find that his dog had upset a lighted taper upon the laborious calculations of years, which lay in ashes before him. Then he went calmly to work to reproduce them. The man who thus excelled in self-mastery surpassed all his predecessors and contemporaries in mastering the laws of nature.