We pay when old for the excesses of our youth. [ Proverb ]

Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses! [ Joubert ]

True charity is liable to excesses and transports. [ Massillon ]

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. [ Colton ]

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. [ Boiste ]

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we bad been endowed with. [ Horace ]

He who indulges his senses in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. [ Scott ]