Famous quotes containing the words silk and/or mass:
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile. Permanence is but a word of degrees. Our globe seen by God is a transparent law, not a mass of facts. The law dissolves the fact and holds it fluid.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)