No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
I have never laid a brick in my life. But my people have laid more bricks than anybody else put together. Because I know how to pay.
If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
No man was ever wise by chance.
The only hero known to my childhood was Henry Clay.
No man can lose what he never had.
Men say they love independence in a woman, but they don't waste a second demolishing it brick by brick.
I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.