Quotes about Temperance

Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas. Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.

Character Ethic as the foundation of success - things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule. Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is representative of that literature. It is, basically, the story of one man's effort to integrate certain principles and habits deep within his character.

In stark contrast, almost all the literature in the first 150 years or so focused on what could be called the Character Ethic as the foundation of success—things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.

Inordinate love for the flesh is cruelty, because under the appearance of pleasing the body, we kill the soul.

Temperance is love in training.

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

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.