continence quotes

Mr Mercaptan went on to preach a brilliant sermon on that melancholy sexual perversion known as continence.

- Aldous Leonard Huxley
  Antic Hay, ch.18.

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

-John Milton
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.