“And three lucky stones strung on a wire to keep the house safe.”

Source: Science and Hypothesis (1901), Ch. IX: Hypotheses in Physics, Tr. George Bruce Halsted (1913)
Context: The Scientist must set in order. Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

Source: Magic Strikes

Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: These houses are intended to have stone walls.... The fact that a stone house is better in many ways than a wooden one, and also more economical in the long run has, for the most part, been overlooked... The conditions are... ripe for a change from wood to stone or other incombustible material, but it will doubtless come about slowly.<!-- Introduction

I was madly in love with him and stepped happily into the Wonderland of his fame.
Afterword to The Dud Avocado (2006)

Even the Losers
Lyrics, Damn The Torpedoes (1979)

"Of servants"
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations

Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)

Source: Gathering Blue

Quote of Charlotte Salomon, 1943; as cited on Wikipedia, English
as the Nazis intensified their search for Jews living in the South of France in 1943, she handed the 769 paintings on paper over to a trusted friend with these words