“Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion.”
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 21
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Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book II, Chapter VIII, Sec. 16

“Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.”

"I'd Love To Be A Fairy's Child".
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)

“I built the fortress of my character with all the bricks that pulled me.”
From the Aphorisms http://www.prevale.net/aphorisms.html page of the official website of Prevale
Original: (it) Ho costruito la fortezza del mio carattere con tutti i mattoni che mi hanno tirato addosso.

“On books and friends I spend my money;
For stones and bricks I haven't any.”
Source: Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas

Source: De architectura (The Ten Books On Architecture) (~ 15BC), Book I, Chapter V, Sec. 8
Context: Dimension stone, flint, rubble, burnt or unburnt brick,—use them as you find them. For it is not every neighborhood or particular locality that can have a wall built of burnt brick like that at Babylon, where there was plenty of asphalt to take the place of lime and sand, and yet possibly each may be provided with materials of equal usefulness so that out of them a faultless wall may be built to last forever.