Richter Scale

Famous quotes containing the words richter and/or scale:

    “Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.”
    —Jean Paul Richter (1763–1825)

    “I own I never really warmed
    To the reformer or reformed.
    And yet conversion has its place
    Not halfway down the scale of grace.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)