“Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.”
“The world is a stage, but the play is badly written.”
“Our life was an inept play with some disproportionately good acting in it.”
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.”
“A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.”
“When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.”