Westminster Abbey

"Mortality, behold and fear! What a change of flesh is here! Think how many royal bones Sleep within this heap of stones."

"On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey."

"As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression."

"Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending."