Serenity

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook

Age considers; youth ventures

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear

Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenity

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity

But what is past my help is past my care

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it