"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?"

"Our descendants, who will worry very little about our sufferings and will dance on our graves, will laugh at our pres…"

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

"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."