"A nation’s ideals are usually a disguise, and are not to be taken as history. Courage and temperance, or manliness(andreia), and the meden agan or “nothing in excess” of the Delphic inscription — are the rival mottoes of the Greek; he realizes the one frequently enough, but the other only in his peasants, philosophers, and saints. CH. XIII The Morals and Manners of the Greeks, Sec V Character, P.377"

"Temperance is that discreet regulation of the desires and passions, by which we are enabled to enjoy pleasures without suffering any consequent inconvenience. They who maintain such a constant self-command, as never to be enticed by the prospect of present indulgence, to do that which will be productive of evil, obtain the truest pleasure by declining pleasure."

"These names of virtues, with their precepts, were: 1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation."

"Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee; but before Mayst rule it, as thou list: and pour the shame, Which it would pour on thee, upon the floor. It is most just to throw that on the ground, Which would throw me there, if I keep the round."

"My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spiritous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health."

"If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd."

"Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance."

"Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st."

"Abstinence is whereby a man refraineth from any thyng which he may lawfully take."

"Temp'rate in every place, abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either, he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares."

"Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult."

"Of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate. [Tar Water.]"

"And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October."

"Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam."

"Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge."

"Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half the human race to misery."

"Ask God for temperance; that's the appliance only Which your disease requires."

"If a workman can conveniently spare those three halfpence, he buys a pot of porter. If he cannot, he contents himself with a pint, and, as a penny saved is a penny got, he thus gains a farthing by his temperance."

"The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and courage in adversity."

"The history of all peoples is full of bloody and revolting pages. So much blood has been spilled for every new construction, every new teaching or religion! That is why humanity urgently must learn the two great concepts — Tolerance and Cooperation. On these two foundations the New Epoch will be built."

"Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; Leave gormandizing."

"Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue."

"Drinking water neither makes a man sick, nor in debt, nor his wife a widow."

"O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook."

"Moses … takes one form of desire, that one whose field of activity is the belly, and admonishes and disciplines it as the first step, holding that the other forms will cease to run riot as before and will be restrained by having learnt that their senior and as it were the leader of their company is obedient to the laws of temperance."

"Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of Sense, Lie in three words, Health, Peace, and Competence. But Health consists with Temperance alone, And Peace, oh Virtue! Peace is all thy own."

"Nineteenth-century feminists expressed their anger with male sexual domination and promiscuity in a number of movements, including the campaigns against prostitution nd slavery and the fight for temperance. All sections of the women’s movement advocated “voluntary motherhood,”” a slogan that addressed both men’s sexual violation of their wives and women’s desire to control childbearing. Women urged... to adopt a single standard-the female standard of chastity until marriage, followed by monogamy and moderation."

"While Reason drew the plan, the Heart inform'd The moral page and Fancy lent it grace."

"Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio."

"On aime sans raison, et sans raison l'on hait."

"Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad similitudinem aliorum vivimus."

"To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title."

"La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure."

"Omnia sunt risus, sunt pulvis, et omnia nil sunt: Res 'hominum cunctæ, nam ratione carent."

"Hoc volo, sic jubeo, sit pro ratione voluntas."

"Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them."

"You have ravished me away by a Power I cannot resist; and yet I could resist till I saw you; and even since I have seen you I have endeavored often "to reason against the reasons of my Love.""

"Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo pejorem causam meliorem faciat."

"That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason."

"And what is reason? Be she thus defined: Reason is upright stature in the soul."

"Domina omnium et regina ratio."

"I am not going to question your opinions. I am not going to meddle with your belief. I am not going to dictate to you mine. All that I say is, examine; enquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the ground of your opinions, the for and the against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you… But your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry — tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware of profane learning; to submit your reason, and to receive their doctrines for truths. Such advice renders them suspicious counsellors. By their own creed you hold your reason from their God. Go! ask them why he gave it."

"It must have required enormous effort for man to overcome his natural tendency to live like the animals in a continual present. Moreover, the development of rational thought actually seems to have impeded man's appreciation for the significance of time. ... Belief that the ultimate reality is timeless is deeply rooted in human thinking, and the origin of rational investigation of the world was the search for permanent factors that lie behind the ever-changing pattern of events."

"Reason progressive, Instinct is complete; Swift Instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. Brutes soon their zenith reach. * * * In ages they no more Could know, do, covet or enjoy."

"Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule … as making the worse appear the better reason."

"Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world."

"Reason is the test of ridicule, and not ridicule the test of truth."

"When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder, we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason."