Highest Proportion

Famous quotes containing the words highest and/or proportion:

“A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, or the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)