"Aristotle calls discretion virtutum normam et formam -- the eye of the soul, the soul of virtue. I would to God some amongst us had one dram of this grace mingled with their whole handfuls of zeal. it would a little cool the preternatural heat of the fling-brand fraternity, as one wittily calleth them."
The works of Thomas Adams : being the sum of his sermons, meditations, and other divine and moral discourses (1861), vol. I (p. 125).
"Fling-brand fraternity" is now my preferred term for basically everyone in or out of the news.
