Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones. Before
- Emily Bronte
Evil is a sucker for solidity. It always goes for big numbers, for confident granite, for ideological purity, for drilled armies and balanced sheets.
- Joseph Brodsky
When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed. When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work but the solidest things we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.