Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection [Are] that a thing is your own and that it is your only one.

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.

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

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