I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. Thomas Jefferson
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. Bertrand Russell
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. Edmund Burke
Acquaintance: "A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous. Ambrose Bierce
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one. Anton Chekhov
As a general rule, those truths which we highly relish, and which shed a degree of practical light upon the things which we are required to give up for God, are leadings of Divine grace, which we should follow without hesitation. François Fénelon