Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. – Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab

Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present. – William Lloyd Garrison

Our moral theorists seem never content with the normal. Why must it always be a contest between fornication, obesity and laziness, and celibacy, fasting and hard labor? – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)