Famous quotes containing the words chalk and/or level:
“What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)