When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.—Thomas Paine.
He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.—Lavater.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.—Bovee.
It is not the absence, but the mastery, of our passions which affords happiness.—Mme. de Maintenon.
Past.—The past is utterly indifferent to its worshipers.—William Winter.
Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit rule of life, is never to be a man.—Chatfield.
No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.—Byron.
The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.—Trench.
Study the past if you would divine the future.—Confucius.
The best of prophets of the future is the past.—Byron.