Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.
Voltaire
It is better a man should be abused than forgotten.
Samuel Johnson
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
James Madison
The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.
Jeremy Collier
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer
There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter.
Charles Caleb Colton
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington