True features make the beauty of a face, and true proportions the beauty of architecture. [ Shaftesbury ]

There are hours in life when the most trifling annoyances assume the proportions of a catastrophe. [ E. Souvestre ]

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, - gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows. [ Talleyrand ]

The prodigality of women has reached such proportions that one must be wealthy to have one for himself: we have no other resource than to love the wives of others. [ A. Karr ]

It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists. [ Rousseau ]

Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind. [ Shaftesbury ]

The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions. [ Burke ]