Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

Poetry fettered fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry painting and music are destroyed or flourish.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I'm not overly alarmist about it but I do think there are some worrying signs like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Organizations endure however in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.