Quotes about Moderation

Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!

I agree with you, that in Politicks the Middle Way is none at all.

For this is spiritual sobriety, when we use this world so sparingly and temperately that we are not entangled with its allurements.

Here, if any where, in considering the hidden mysteries of Scripture, we should speculate soberly and with great moderation, cautiously guarding against allowing either our mind or our tongue to go a step beyond the confines of God's word.

But we must so cherish moderation that we do not try to make God render account to us, but so reverence his secret judgments as to consider his will the truly just cause of all things.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Don't use all your health to chase after wealth, only to spend all your wealth later to get back your health.

Restraint never ruins one's health.

Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

It is better to be a little too strict than too liberal.