If you are conscious of being in a passion keep your mouth shut, for words increase it. Many a person has dropped dead in a rage. Fits of anger bring fits of disease. If you would demolish an opponent in argument, first make him as mad as you can. Dr. Fuller used to say that the heat of passion makes our souls to crack and the devil creeps in at the crevices.
Anger is a passion, the most criminal and destructive of all passions.
The only one that not only bears the appearance of insanity, but often produces the wildest form of madness. It is difficult indeed sometimes, to mark the line that distinguishes the bursts of rage from the bursts of frenzy. So similar are its movements and too often equally similar are its actions. Anger wrecks reason and conscience. A passionate temper renders a man unfit for advice, deprives him of his reason, robs him of all that is either great or noble in his nature.