• Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

    Charles Buxton: Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.
    Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1873). “Notes of Thought”, p.243