Write your sad times in sand. Write your good times on stone.
— G.B. Shaw
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
— Pericles
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" No thing beside remains. Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare. The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— Percy Shelly
When the prophet, a complacent fat man, Arrived at the mountain-top He cried: "Woe to my knowledge! I intended to see good white lands And bad black lands— But the scene is grey.