Marble is the only real type of the permanent in American architecture.

PETER the Cobbler [pityingly] Marble is final, woman;nay, poor soul!

But that which lifts the true artist above externals, the externals of his own individual being, crushes the false, to whom the marble and the paint are in themselves the ultimate.

Who now shall pay thy Tombe with such a Verse As thou that Ladies didst, faire Rutlands Herse? A Monument that will then lasting be, When all her Marble is more dust than she.

We get our chronology so twisted that we come to believe that the white marble of the tomb is the mile-stone at which a good man stops, when it is only a mile-stone on a journey, the most of the miles of which are yet to be travelled.

For you should know, dear Madam Pan, that marbles and tops are the city's first spring sign.

Yet though Jenny were sculpture now, Theophil could not forget that this icy marble had once been the flesh he had loved.

The finest white marble, like that of Carrara in Italy, of which the most delicate statues are carved, is carbonate of lime altered and hardened by volcanic heat.

Marble was an adventurous fellow aloft, on all occasions; and seeing good footing about the top, without saying a word to me, he seized an axe, and literally ran out on the mast, where he began to cut the collars of the rigging at the mast-head.

Marble was never a vicious man, nor could he be called a particularly wicked man, as the world goes.

Italian marble, terra cotta and Mexican onyx are the principal materials used, and nothing "equally as good" is tolerated.