Balance Scale

Famous quotes containing the words balance and/or scale:

“The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“‘Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)