Famous quotes containing the words measure, soft and/or power:
“What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so much we are.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Ive sometimes thought ... that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.”
—J.M. (James Matthew)
“A physicians physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a clerics divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.”
—Samuel Butler (18351902)
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