I like to operate like a submarine on sonar. When I am picking up noise from both the left and right, I know my course is correct.

Moderation in all things.

Nothing to excess.

Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress.

Happy they who steadily pursue a middle course.

Nothing in excess.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its ardour and activity.

Moderation has been created a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

The moderate are not usually the most sincere, for the same circumspection which makes them moderate makes them likewise retentive of what could give offense.

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

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negroes' great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

Give me more love or more disdain; The torrid or the frozen zone Bring equal ease unto my pain; The temperate affords me none.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

If one is moderate in developing one's justifiable inclinations, and succeeds in freeing oneself of one's inhibitions, this will not shorten one's life span, but increase it. All of these things can be compared to fire and water: only their excessive use is harmful.