Level Tone

Famous quotes containing the words level and/or tone:

“No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Our medieval historians who prefer to rely as much as possible on official documents because the chronicles are unreliable, fall thereby into an occasionally dangerous error. The documents tell us little about the difference in tone which separates us from those times; they let us forget the fervent pathos of medieval life.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)