Proportion

Famous quotes containing the word proportion:

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“... there has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)