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

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

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

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

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

"Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet."

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

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

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

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