golden mean

It 's what they call the golden mean; too close, too far, we're strangers.

In this, as in most things, the best rule is the golden mean.

And vices are easier than virtue, extremes easier than the golden mean.

Whoever loves the golden mean will avoid a palace as much as a hovel.

The fact is that Blackie is a philosopher, who follows the golden mean.

There is no ease, no unaffected simplicity of manner, no “golden mean.”

It seems to us a sort of golden mean between the two extremes.

Lincoln's doctrine of the golden mean, became for once a political power.

He was content with his ringing assertion of the golden mean.

To do what one could under the circumstances, was not that the golden mean?