I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
I swear, talking to you is like talking to a really good-looking and mildly stupid brick wall.
Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence.