“If there is to be no satisfaction in pleasure, none in wisdom, none in ambition, none in the golden mean, what then? Ah, where then? In duty. In doing right because it is right.” IfsMeanPleasureDutyAmbitionSatisfactionGoldenDoing RightGolden Mean Book:Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott
“Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!” MenMeanGreatnessBirthBlessingSlaveEsteemGoldenCurseFreemanGolden Mean Author:Philip Massinger