A strangely reflective even melancholy day. Is that because unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

Subdue your appetites my dears and you've conquered human nature.

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.

A peace is of the nature of a conquest for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser.

Music exalts each joy allays each grief expels diseases softens every pain subdues the rage of poison and the plague.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.