Every human action gains in honour, in grace, in all true magnificence, by its regard to things that are to come....
Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever. Let it not be for present delight, nor for present use alone; let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for, and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say as they look upon the labour and wrought substance of them, "See! this our fathers did for us."
Source
John Ruskin. 1907. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. J.M Dent. p. 249Suggested by Ben Jeffs
