I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

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

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.

Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.

I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.