Famous quotes containing the words base and/or metals:
“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one’s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)