Quotes about Balance

Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep the fire out of the one, and the frost out of the other.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd / Tempering each other in the victor's mind / Alternately proclaim him good and great / And make the hero and the man complete.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.

Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.

Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance.

I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

As terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.