Men should be taught self-control and moderation in the use of things.

If the appetite becomes vitiated through over-indulgence, you do not change its condition by complete denial.

What you want for radical cure is the restoration of the old ability to use without abusing.

In other words, you want a man made right again as to his rational power of self-control, by which he becomes master of himself in all the degrees of his life, from the highest to the lowest." "All very well," remarked Dr.Hillhouse, who had joined them while Mr.
Elliott was speaking.

"But, in my experience, the rational self-control of which you speak is one of the rarest things to be met with in common life, and it may be fair to conclude that the man who cannot exercise it before a dangerous habit has been formed will not be very likely to exercise it afterward when anything is done to favor that habit.
Habits, Mr.Elliott, are dreadful hard things to manage, and I do not know a harder one to deal with than the habit of over-indulgence in wine or spirits.