The ingredients of health and long life are great temperance open air easy labor and little care.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

Age does not depend upon years but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old and some never grow so.

Lost wealth may be replaced by industry lost knowledge by study lost health by temperance or medicine but lost time is gone forever.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored and life is only too short and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy amused way.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper or to conciliate with dignity.