Famous quotes containing the words measure and/or crime:
“I measure myself
Against a tall tree.
I find that I am much taller,
For I reach right up to the sun,
With my eye....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Each man’s private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly within himself, and not care what the world thinks. The mass of human beings, however, are not made that way; and many people have been saved from crime or sin by the simple dislike of doing things they would not like to confess ...”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)