Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century tempered by war disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer because I don't have the patience.
Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.
Music inflames temperament.
I must admit even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.
It is generally in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper principles and designs.
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
Men are like steel. When they lose their temper they lose their worth.
There's no question that as science knowledge and technology advance that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed he explained so he did not weep.
There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems which are already over stressed and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.
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.