It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people-confused and excited-hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed so beastly as doth intemperate anger.