Clay Quote by Francis Quarles

The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

— Ivan Panin

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

— Antoine Rivarol

Sometimes we search the world for gold, but what we need is just a hand to hold. Sometimes we let treasure slip away with…

— Melchor Lim

Earth is dearer than gold

— Estonian Proverb

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

— Henry David Thoreau

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

— Plato

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it;…

— Thomas Browne

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

— William Shakespeare

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

— Rumi

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it…

— Jacques Barzun

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to…

— Walt Whitman

When the jars of clay remember they are jars of clay, the treasure within gets all the glory, which seems somehow more fitting.

— Jen Hatmaker