You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.
The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice.
Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.
Do not dismantle the house, but look at each brick, and replace those which appear to be broken, which no longer support the structure.
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.
Without stones there is no arch.
In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.
Everyone pushes a falling fence.
The scaffolding must be removed once the house is built.
Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.
I love flying buttresses!
Ceremony is all backbone.
Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it.
Willows are weak, but they bind the Faggot.
In drawing, I often think of things as flying buttresses.
It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.
The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.
The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.
