“He measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.”

“God is more generous than men and will measure them by a different standard.”

“You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.”

“What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men. For that reason a disobedience committed in a garden contaminates the human race; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew suffices to safe it. Perhaps Schopenhauer is right: I am all others, any men is all men, Shakespeare is in some way the wretched John Vincent Moon.”

“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”

“His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.”

“He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.”