Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

It is better to rise from life as from a banquet – neither thirsty nor drunken. – Aristotle

To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. – Saint Augustine of Hippo

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