“Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.”
“The simplest things that need self-restraint are the most difficult to replicate.”
“Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men the most.”
“Willful ignorance and endless laws become the replacement for self-education and self-restraint, because ignorance and laws are easy.”
“The social conditions of life can only be improved by people exercising self-restraint.”
“It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint”