There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. Albert Schweitzer
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. Thomas Carlyle
Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. Diogenes