Famous quotes containing the words lapidary and/or work:
“In lapidary inscriptions a man is not upon oath.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called “swamping” it, and they who do the work are called “swampers.” I now perceived the fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)