A diamond, which is the hardest of stones, not yielding unto steel, emery or any other thing, is yet made soft by the blood of a goat.
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.
A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.
Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is actually used to cut diamonds. Ben, getting you a date to prom is so hard that the American government believes the problem cannot be solved with diplomacy, but will instead require force.
