"The best of men have ever loved repose: They hate to mingle in the filthy fray; Where the soul sours, and gradual rancour grows, Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day."

"Our foster-nurse of nature is repose, The which he lacks; that to provoke in him, Are many simples operative, whose power Will close the eye of anguish."

"These should be hours for necessities, Not for delights; times to repair our nature With comforting repose, and not for us To waste these times."

"The wind breath'd soft as lover's sigh, And, oft renew'd, seem'd oft to die, With breathless pause between, O who, with speech of war and woes, Would wish to break the soft repose Of such enchanting scene!"

"To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose."

"But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell."

"Ut sementem feceris, ita metes."

"Al freir de los huevos lo vera."

"Tantas veces va el cantarillo à la fuente."

"The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted—they have torn me—and I bleed! I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed."

"As you sow y' are like to reap."

"From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow."

"Quando aliquid prohibetur, prohibetur et omne per quod devenitur ad illud."

"Father Abbot, I am come to lay my weary bones among you."

"Thou hadst, for weary feet, the gift of rest."

"Now is done thy long day's work Fold thy palms across thy breast, Fold thine arms, turn to thy rest. Let them rave."

"The camel at the close of day Kneels down upon the sandy plain To have his burden lifted off And rest again."

"And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer."

"Arcum intensio frangit, animum remissio."

"Master, I've filled my contract, wrought in Thy many lands; Not by my sins wilt Thou judge me, but by the work of my hands. Master, I've done Thy bidding, and the light is low in the west, And the long, long shift is over … Master, I've earned it—Rest."

"Life's race well run, Life's work well done, Life's victory won, Now cometh rest."

"Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honour'd race."

"The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life."

"Les étrangers sont la postérité contemporaine."

"Culpam majorum posteri luunt."

"Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for us?"

"Ich verachte die Menschheit in allen ihren Schichten; ich sehe es voraus, dass unsere Nachkommen noch weit unglücklicher sein werden, als wir. Sollte ich nicht ein Sünder sein, wenn ich trotz dieser Ansicht für Nachkommen, d. h. für Unglückliche sorgte?"

"Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum Rara juventus."

"Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren."

"Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets."

"He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded."

"Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!"

"Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet."

"The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "We do much for posterity; I would fain see them do something for us.""

"Our descendants, who will worry very little about our sufferings and will dance on our graves, will laugh at our present ignorance."

"As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?"

"Muore per metà chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei figli."

"Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren, Das Echte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren."

"quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur."

"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

"For when one's proofs are aptly chosen, Four are as valid as four dozen."

"You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration."

"The being and existence of the thing itself, is what I call the original truth. A credible man vouching his knowledge of it is a good proof; but if another equally credible do witness it from his report, the testimony is weaker: and a third that attests the hearsay of an hearsay is yet less considerable. So that in traditional truths, each remove weakens the force of the proof: and the more hands the tradition has successively passed through, the less strength and evidence does it receive from them."

"A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven."

"You may prove anything by figures."

"PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one."

""I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't." "Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Ah, that was easy," says man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing. Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys."

"A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity."

"What has poster'ty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?"

"We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us."