Quotes about Brass

Morality shoots short of heaven. It is only nature refined. A moral man is but old Adam dressed in fine clothes. The king's image counterfeited and stamped upon brass will not go current.

If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time will efface it. But if we work upon immortal minds, and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving upon tablets which no time will efface but will brighten and brighten to all eternity." I

The Philistines took him [Samson], and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

Tubal-cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron.

His feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.