Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with genius it has not even a nodding acquaintance. Colton.
Moderation is the silken string running through 25 the pearl chain of all virtues. Thomas Fuller.
Moderation is the virtue best adapted to the dawn of prosperity. Pitt.
Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain we can no more manage our mobs. Ruskin.
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrists. J. Sterling.
Modern poets put a great deal of water in their ink. Goethe.
Modern Protestantism sees in the cross, not a 30 furca to which it is to be nailed, but a raft on which it, and all its valuable properties, are to be floated into Paradise. Ruskin.
Modern revolution has nothing grand about it; it is merely the resolution of society into its component atoms. Froude.
Modern science gives lectures on botany, to show there is no such thing as a flower; on humanity, to show there is no such thing as a man; and on theology, to show there is no such thing as a God. No such thing as a man, but only a mechanism. No such thing as a God, but only a series of forces. Ruskin.
Modest demeanour's the jewel of a'! Burns.