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• If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
  -- Robert South...
• Heraclitus says that Pittacus, when he had got Alcaeus into his power, released him, saying, "Forgiveness is better than revenge.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, iii...
• Contentment produces in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone
  and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing, by banishing the desire of them....
• The measure of choosing well is whether a man likes what he has chosen. -- Lamb
• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
  -- Thomas Babington Macaulay...
• Does not our power increase exactly in the measure we learn how to use it? -- Emerso
• Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
  -- Peter Mere Latham...
• Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactely the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.
  -- Peter Mere Latham...