“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.