JUNE 26
You are encompassed with ten thousand mercies; let these sink you into humble thankfulness.
Letter, 26th April, 1777
How impossible it is for a man to see things right when he is angry? Does not passion blind the eyes of the understanding as smoke does the bodily eyes? And how little of the truth can we learn from those who see nothing but through a cloud?
Correction must not be given in anger; if it be so, it will lose its effect on the child, who will think he is corrected, not because he has done a fault, but because the parent is angry.
The Duties of Husbands and Wives, 1770
