Regulate your own passions and bear those of others. [ Proverb ]

Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses. [ Macaulay ]

The great uses of study to a woman are to enable her to regulate her own mind, and be instrumental to the good of others. [ Hannah More ]

That immense majority, the fools, who made the laws that regulate the manners of the world, very naturally made them for their own benefit.

It is necessary to look forward as well as backward, as some think it is always necessary to regulate their conduct by things that have been done of old times, but that past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on an alternative of some past that went before it. [ Madame De Stael ]

When the great Kepler had at length discovered the harmonic laws that regulate the motions of the heavenly bodies, he exclaimed: Whether my discoveries will be read by posterity or by my contemporaries is a matter that concerns them more than me. I may well be contented to wait one century for a reader, when God Himself, during so many thousand years, has waited for an observer like myself. [ Macaulay ]