“Moderation in all things.”

Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

am human: nothing human is alien to me.

When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side.

We should look at the lives of all as at a mirror, and take from others an example for ourselves.

Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.

Their silence is enough praise.

In fact nothing is said that has not been said before.

The less my hope, the hotter my love.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Of my friends I am the only one left.

Fortune helps the brave.

You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Charity begins at home.

It is the common vice of all, in old age, to be too intent upon our interests.

I am a human being, so nothing human is strange to me.

She never was really charming till she died.

If the quickness of the mind and the fluency of the tongue are too punctilious and sharp, moderate them in your activity and rest.

There are things that tend to moderate with age. Schizophrenia is somewhat like that.

Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.

I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

Both wise, and both delightful too. And since Love ne’er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as Guardian angels are, Only belov’d and loving me.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.