Pure reason avoids extremes, and requires one to be wise in moderation.

Everything is good in moderation. Even moderation.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him not to publish it, saying, ''The world is bad enough with the Bible; what would it be without it?''