Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.
To meditate an injury is to commit one.
It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
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