Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

The waste of capital in proportion to the total capital in this country between 1800 and 1850 in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation was enormous.

The mind in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature with revelation with God with itself loses its life just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction but dissatisfaction never changes.

Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.

The truth the absolute truth is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.