"Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience."

Next Quote

In its primary signification, all vice, that is, all excess, brings on its own punishment, even here. By certain fixed, settled and established laws of Him who is the God of nature, excess of every kind destroys that constitution which temperance would preserve. The debauchee offers up his body a "living sacrifice to sin.

— Charles Caleb Colton