Add Quote by James A. Garfield

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living.

— Pierre-Jean de Beranger

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.

— Thomas Campbell

“The outer garments of to-day will become the under-clothes of some destined to-morrow, and centuries hence a man found walking on the public highways…

— John Kendrick Bangs

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we…

— William Gurnall

Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death;…

— William Shakespeare

As bronze may be much beautified by lying in the dark damp soil, so men who fade in dust of warfare fade fairer, and…

— Wilfred Owen

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce…

— Daniel Webster

“When the Eternal bows the skies To visit earthly things, With scorn divine he turns his eyes From towers of haughty kings. He bids…

— Isaac Watts

Those who walk on the surface of the earth shall one day be interred in it!

— Hussein Nishah

The greatest glory of a building is not in its stones, nor in its gold. Its glory is in its Age, and in that…

— John Ruskin

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed…

— Charles Caleb Colton