Famous quotes containing the words high and/or weight:
“That is very high praise, which is given you by faithful witness.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government, without any disorder from numbers. In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached. Here the rich gave counsel, but the poor also; and moreover, the just and the unjust.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)