Forced Depth

Famous quotes containing the words forced and/or depth:

    When things reach their limit they are forced to bounce back.
    Chinese proverb.

    Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love—now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dewdrops which give such depth to the morning meadows.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)