“As tempers rose, a compromise was urged by certain moderates, whom everyone ignored.”

“It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.”

“A good compromise leaves everyone angry.”

“Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.”

“Certain winds will make men's temper bad.”

“They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?”

“Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.”

“That no free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue, and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles.”

“It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!
(Institutio III.2.3)”

“though mankind persuades
itself that every weed's
a rose, roses(you feel
certain) will only smile”