CHAPTER VI .-- SELF-CONTROL.
"Honour and profit do not always lie in the same sack."-- GEORGE HERBERT.
"The government of one's self is the only true freedom for the Individual."-- FREDERICK PERTHES.
"It is in length of patience, and endurance, and forbearance, that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown."-- ARTHUR HELPS.
"Temperance, proof Against all trials; industry severe And constant as the motion of the day; Stern self-denial round him spread, with shade That might be deemed forbidding, did not there All generous feelings flourish and rejoice; Forbearance, charity indeed and thought, And resolution competent to take Out of the bosom of simplicity All that her holy customs recommend."-- WORDSWORTH.
Self-control is only courage under another form.

It may almost be regarded as the primary essence of character.

It is in virtue of this quality that Shakspeare defines man as a being "looking before and after." It forms the chief distinction between man and the mere animal; and, indeed, there can be no true manhood without it.
Self-control is at the root of all the virtues.

Let a man give the reins to his impulses and passions, and from that moment he yields up his moral freedom.

He is carried along the current of life, and becomes the slave of his strongest desire for the time being.
To be morally free--to be more than an animal--man must be able to resist instinctive impulse, and this can only be done by the exercise of self-control.