A person's fate is their own temper.


Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.


Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.


Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.


Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.


Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.


The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.


Who has skill in the art of music is of good temperament and fitted for all things.


Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.