Your own private journal should record the way you face up to challenges that beset you. Do not suppose life changes so… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees. It argues, I think, a sweet… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me? — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods. — Peter Reading Copy Share Image
The judgment of posterity is truer, because it is free from envy and malevolence. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us? — Boyle Roche Copy Share Image
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It so happens that the work which is likely to be our most durable monument, and to convey some knowledge of us… — Montgomery Schuyler Copy Share Image
An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority,… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it when living. — Pierre-Jean de Beranger Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless,… — Henry Clay Copy Share Image
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you! — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
