A false balance is abomination to the L: but a just weight is his delight.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs11:1.

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

-Canning, George
  Speech to the Commons, on Portugal,12 Dec.

To write music is to raise a ladder without a wall to lean it against. There is no scaffolding: the building under construction is held in balance only by the miracle of a kind of internal logic, an innate sense of proportion.

-Honegger, Arthur
I Am a Composer.

Force is the same throughout and the whole is in every part of it. Force is a spiritual power, an invisible energy which isimparted by violence from without toall bodies out of their natural balance.

-Leonardo daVinci
Quoted in  Jean-Paul Richter (ed)  The Literary  Works of Leonardo da Vinci (1939).

I see you belong to the category, old friend, which will havethingsintheround, whichdoesloveanend, causes, the balance sheet drawn and equalled.But, mydear Gid, the world is not like thatöit is untidy, there are no reasons, the final sum never balances.

-Mo,Timothy
  An Insular Possession, ch.44.

Inwar, three-quartersturns onmoral considerations; the Narogin balance of actual forces counts only for the remaining quarter.

-Napoleon I
  Comment, 27  Apr. Quoted in Observations sur les affaires de l'Espagne, Saint Cloud, in Correspondance de Napoleon1er (1858^69), vol.17.

England is one of the greatest powers of the world. No event or series of events bearing on the balance of power, or on probabilities of peace or war, can be matters of indifferencetoher, and herrighttohaveand to express opinions onmattersthusbearingonher interests is unquestionable.

-Palmerston, HenryJohnTemple, 3rd Viscount
  Letter to QueenVictoria, 23 Aug.

Poetic Justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.1, l.52^4.

Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Guide to Kulcher, pt.3, section 5, ch.20.

The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneöits ideologies and inventionsöwhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

-Sontag, Susan
  In Partisan Review,Winter.

   To preserve a trading state from decline, the greatest care must be taken, to support a perfect balance between the hands employed in work and the demand for their labour.

-Steuart (later Denham), SirJames
  Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy.

   The eyes ofall England are onthis Parliament.If youdoin good earnest wish to see England hold the balance of Europe and to be indeed at the head of the Protestant interest, it will appear by your right improving the present opportunity.

-William III also called  William of Orange
  At the State Opening of Parliament, Dec.

   A balance, an ennobling interchange Of action from without and from within; The excellence, pure function, and best power Both of the object seen, and eye that sees.

-Wordsworth,William
^1805  The Prelude, bk.13, l.375^8 (published1850).