| The conspicuous display of obscene wealth is not a creation of Forbes or the Tatler, but goes back to the Pyramids and beyond. |
| The Pyramids exceed all other buildings in strength, height, and durability. |
| Cheops, one of the Memphian Kings, built the largest of the Pyramids, and near it are several others not much less in size. |
| In the strength of his constancy, the Pyramids seem to him recent and transitory. |
| They are older than the Pyramids, arguably even more important in the history of civilisation, and, may I dare say, more impressive. |
| Those Sakkara pyramids lack the majesty of the Pyramids, and one looks at the amorphous heaps in an oppressed silence. |
