It is but an indifferent trick for a hypocrite to make temperance speeches.

Dr.
Small did not even belong to a temperance society.

But he could never be persuaded to drink even so much as a cup of tea.

There was something sublime in the quiet voice with which he would say, "Cold water, if you please," to a lady tempting him with smoking coffee on a cold morning.
There was no exultation, no sense of merit in the act.

Everything was done in a modest and matter-of-course way beautiful to behold.