CHAPTER XXIII.

TEMPERANCE AND INTEMPERANCE.

Temperate 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.
Crabbe.

1. Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart as well as the pocket.

Marcus Aurelius.

2. A thousand will drink themselves to death ere one die under the stress of thirst. German Proverb.

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

Epictetus.

4. This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler. Plautus.

5. Habitual intoxication is the epitome of Douglas Jerrold.

every crime.

6. If once you find a woman gluttonous, expect from her very little virtue; her mind is enslaved in the lowest and grossest temptation. Johnson.

7. O thou invisible spirit of wine! if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee-devil. Shakespeare.

8. Go not for every grief to the physician, for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the bottle.

Italian Proverb.

9. Use, do not abuse: neither abstinence nor excess renders man happy. Voltaire.

10. Call things by their right name— "Glass of brandy and water!" That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for "A glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation." Robert Hall.

II. Wine and youth are fire upon fire. Wine is a turncoat; first, a friend; then, a deceiver; then, an enemy.

Henry Fielding.

12. Beware of drunkenness, lest all good

men beware of thee.

Quarles.

13. What is a drunken man like? Like a

drown'd man, a fool, and a mad man: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him, and a third drowns him. Shakespeare.

14. He who would keep himself to himself, should imitate the dumb animals and drink water. Bulwer.

15. I have four reasons for being an abstainer-my head is clearer, my health is better, my heart is lighter, and my purse is heavier. Thomas Guthrie. 16. He that is drunk is not a man, because he is void of reason that distinguishes a man from a beast. Penn.

17. Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil.

Shakespeare.

18. The first glass for myself; the second for my friends; the third for humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.

Sir W. Temple.

19. In the mirror we see the face; in wine, the heart. German Proverb. 20. The bar-room as a bank: You de

posit your money-and lose it; your time

and lose it; your character-and lose it; your manly independence—and lose it; your home comfort-and lose it; your self-control and lose it; your children's happiness -and lose it; your own soul—and lose it. Strong drink is not only the devil's way into a man, but man's way to the devil.

Adam Clarke. 21. Everything that exceeds the bounds of moderation has an unstable foundation. Seneca.

22. A vine bears three grapes; the first of pleasure, the second of drunkenness, and the third of repentance. Anacharsis.

23. Drunkenness takes away the man, and leaves only the brute; it dethrones reason from its seat, stupefies conscience, ruins health, wastes property, covers the wretch with rags, reduces wife and children to want and beggary, and gives such power to appetite that physically, as well as morally, it is next to impossible to cure it.

W. Jay.

24. "Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life," but in a good many cases

the man is in a neighboring saloon, and does not hear her. Mark Twain.

25. Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet. Coleridge.

26. If it is a small sacrifice to discontinue the use of wine, do it for the sake of others; if it is a great sacrifice, do it for your own. Samuel J. May.

27. Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man. Henry Fielding.

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

29. Wine is like anger, for it makes us strong, blind and impatient, and it leads us to wrong; the strength is quickly lost, we feel the error long. George Crabbe. 30. A youth of sensuality and intemperance delivers over a worn-out body to old

Cicero.

age. 31. Moderation is the silken string run