Famous quotes containing the words measuring and/or depth:
“By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the States crime when it sets out to crush that individuality.”
—Ian McEwan (b. 1938)
“Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of lovenow repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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