When we build, let
us think that we build forever.
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 labor and wrought substance of them,
See! This our
fathers did for us.
-John Ruskin (1819
1900)