“How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.”

“If you grew up in a rural area, you have seen how farmhouses come and go, but the dent left by cellars is permanent. There is something unbreakable in that hand-dug foundational gouge into the earth. Books are the cellars of civilization: when cultures crumble away, their books remain out of sheer stupid solidity.”

“Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is.”

“A solid idea is a firm foundation of a universe construction.”

“The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.”

“We have such numerous interests in our lives that it is not uncommon, on a single occasion, for the foundations of a happiness that does not yet exist to be laid down alongside the intensification of a grief from which we are still suffering.”