The smaller the drink the clearer the head and the cooler the blood.
Health consists with temperance alone.
Virtues are formed by prayer.Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy.Prayer draws into the soul the Holy Spirit, and raises man to Heaven.
Of course I contradict myself. Why else would I hold things in and put the fire out?
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Discipline is needed in our temperance.
Drinking water neither makes a man sick nor in debt nor his wife a widow.
Every moderate drinker could abandon the intoxicating cup if he would every inebriate would if he could.
I love you, she sobbed, rubbing her hands over his face, his hair, his chest, making sure he was solid and real. I love you, and I thought you were dead. I couldn't bear it. I thought I would die too....