Moderate Severity

Famous quotes containing the words moderate and/or severity:

“I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In compassionate men, severity is a virtue.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)