"If we work upon marble it will perish. If we work upon brass time will efface it. If we rear temples they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men's immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity."

"The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud."

"Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes."

"To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, wore a contradiction to our belief."

"But monuments themselves memorials need."

"You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest, Where man can boast that he has trod On him that was "the scourge of God.""

"Exegi monumentum ære perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius, Quod non imber edax, non Aquilo impotens Possit diruere aut innumerabilis Annorum series et fuga temporum. Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitinam."

"Incisa notis marmora publicis, Per quæ spiritus et vita redit bonis Post mortem ducibus."

"Cœlo tegitur qui non hatet urnam."

"Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument."

"For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste."

"Towers of silence."

"Factum abiit; monumenta manent."

"Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit."

"The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."

"Baltimore uprooted General Lee under the cover of night. New Orleans removed its four Confederate statues to mixed reactions—some voicing relief, others, disapproval. And with the violence that followed the events in Charlottesville, when white nationalists killed one counter-protestor and injured 19 more, the question of how America deals with its history of racism has continued to grow in urgency."

"There’s no easy answer when the monument in question is carved into a mountain, when Confederate generals continue to provoke strong emotions. What the debate boils down to is whose version of history will endure. And even when you have a 1,000-foot-granite wall at your disposal, it will never be enough space to capture the complexity of the nation’s centuries-long struggle with the legacy of slavery."

"He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!"

"Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered."

"The righteous require no monuments; their lives and their teachings are their monuments."

"My engagements will not permit me to be present, and I believe if there I could not add anything material to the information existing on the subject. I think it wiser, moreover, not to keep open the sores of war, but to follow the example of those nations who endeavored to obliterate the marks of civil strife, and to commit to oblivion the feelings it engendered."

"Soldats, du haut ces Pyramide quarante siècles vous contemplent."

"Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies."

"Jove, thou regent of the skies."

"Stonehenge, where the demons dwell Where the banshees live and they do live well Stonehenge, where a man's a man And the children dance to the pipes of Pan."

"Our Soveraign here above the rest might stand; And here be chose again to rule the Land. These Ruines sheltered once His Sacred Head, Then when from Wor'ster's fatal Field He fled; Watch'd by the Genius of this Royal place, And mighty Visions of the Danish Race, HisRefuge then was for a Temple shown: But, He restor'd, 'tis now become a Throne."

"Another very unlikely spot is made use of by as a place to breed in, and that is Stonehenge. These birds deposit their nests in the interstices between the upright and the impost stones of that amazing work of antiquity; which circumstance alone speaks the prodigious height of the upright stones, that they should be tall enough to secure those nests from the annoyance of shepherd boys, who are always idling round that place."

"I know this goes without saying, but Stonehenge really was the most incredible accomplishment. It took five hundred men just to pull each sarsen, plus a hundred more to dash around positioning the rollers. Just think about it for a minute. Can you imagine trying to talk six hundred people into helping you drag a fifty-ton stone eighteen miles across the countryside and muscle it into an upright position, and then saying, "Right, lads! Another twenty like that, plus some lintels and maybe a couple of dozen nice bluestones from Wales, and we can party!" Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that."

"When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand. Stonehenge, neither for disposition nor ornament, has anything admirable; but those huge rude masses of stone, set on end, and piled each on other, turn the mind on the immense force necessary for such a work. Nay, the rudeness of the work increases this cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this."

"Much of what has been written about Stonehenge is derivative, second-rate or plain wrong."

"Hello, Stonehenge! Who takes the Pandorica, takes the universe!"

"Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves-or desires."

"I don't like the place at all. It's all wrong. An imposition on the Landscape. I reckon that Stonehenge was build by the contemporary equivalent of Microsoft, whereas Avebury was definitely an Apple circle."

"On the interior of the Statue of Liberty; formally titled "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus."

"On the Auschwitz Concentration Camp."

"On the National Memorial Arch, erected at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1910, quoting George Washington."

"On the Lincoln Memorial."