scales quotes

One cannot balance tragedy in the scales Unless one weighs it with the tragic heart.

- StephenVincent Bene  t
  'John Brown's Body'.

Whohathmeasured thewatersinthehollowof hishand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 40:12.