Famous quotes containing the words precious stones, precious and/or stones:
“License my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
O my America! my new-found-land,
My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned,
My mine of precious stones, my empery,
How blest am I in this discovering thee!
To enter in these bonds is to be free;
Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)
“For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)