MOB.--The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.--GOETHE.
The mob have neither judgment nor principle,--ready to bawl at night
for the reverse of what they desired in the morning.--TACITUS.
The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.--DRYDEN.
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it
will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you
lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.--JANE PORTER.
Inconstant, blind,
Deserting friends at need, and duped by foes;
Loud and seditious, when a chief inspired
Their headlong fury, but, of him deprived,
Already slaves that lick'd the scourging hand.
--THOMSON.
Let there be an entire abstinence from intoxicating drinks throughout
this country during the period of a single generation, and a mob would
be as impossible as combustion without oxygen.--HORACE MANN.
MODERATION.--Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in
bankruptcy.--GOETHE.
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation
in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a
vice.--THOMAS PAINE.
The boundary of man is moderation. When once we pass that pale our
guardian angel quits his charge of us.--FELTHAM.
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all
virtues.--BISHOP HALL.
The superior man wishes to be slow in his words and earnest in his
conduct.
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