Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered read more

Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who read more

The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can read more

If I have done any deed worthy of remembrance, that deed will be my monument. If not, no monument can preserve my memory.