Careful Words

wholesome (adj.)

  Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852): Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner, May 10, 1847. Vol. ii. p. 393.

It faded on the crowing of the cock.

Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes

Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,

The bird of dawning singeth all night long:

And then, they say, no spirit dares stir abroad;

The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,

No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,

So hallow'd and so gracious is the time.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.