This monument, so imposing and tasteful, fittingly typifies the grand and symmetrical character of him in whose honor it has been ...builded. His was "the arduous greatness of things done." No friendly hands constructed and placed for his ambition a ladder upon which he might climb. His own brave hands framed and nailed the cleats upon which he climbed to the heights of public usefulness and fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have given... themselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man differs from the lower animals because he preserves his past experiences. What happened in the past is lived again in memory. ...About what goes on today hangs a cloud of thoughts concerning similar things undergone in bygone days. With the animals, an experience perishes as it happens, and each new doing or suffering stands alone. But man lives in a world where each occurrence is charged with echoes and reminiscences of what has gone before, where each event is a reminder of other things. Hence he lives not, like the beasts of the field, in a world of merely physical things but in a world of signs and symbols. A stone is not merely hard, a thing into which one bumps; but it is a monument of a deceased ancestor. A flame is not merely something which warms or burns, but is a symbol of the enduring life of the household, of the abiding source of cheer, nourishment and shelter to which man returns from his casual wanderings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And the wind shall say: "Here were decent godless people: Their only monument the asphalt road... And a thousand lost golf balls."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We infer the spirit of the nation in great measure from the language, which is a sort of monument, to which each forcible individu...al in a course of many hundred years has contributed a stone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where dwells the religion? Tell me first where dwells electricity, or motion, or thought or gesture. They do not dwell or stay at ...all. Electricity cannot be made fast, mortared up and ended, like London Monument, or the Tower, so that you shall know where to find it, and keep it fixed, as the English do with their things, forevermore; it is passing, glancing, gesticular; it is a traveller, a newness, a surprise, a secret which perplexes them, and puts them out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live... And we have wits to read and praise to give.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »