“The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.”
“This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.”
“you have quite dampened by spirit and eagerness, and left me exhausted before I could strike a blow. There are two reasons for this: first, your cleverness in treating the subject with such remarkable and consistent moderation as to make it impossible for me to be angry with you; and secondly, the luck or chance or fate by which you say nothing on this important subject that has not been said before.”
“Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.”
“We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.”
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!”