Memory Is The Scribe Of The Soul.

Some Vices Miss What Is Right Because They Are Deficient, Others Because They Are Excessive, In Feelings Or In Actions, While Virtue Finds And Chooses The Mean.

This Much Then, Is Clear: In All Our Conduct It Is The Mean That Is To Be Commended.

[this Element], The Seat Of The Appetites And Of Desire In General, Does In A Sense Participate In Principle, As Being Amenable And Obedient To It

He Who Takes His Fill Of Every Pleasure ... Becomes Depraved; While He Who Avoids All Pleasures Alike ... Becomes Insensible.

To The Sober Person Adventurous Conduct Often Seems Insanity.