Pastoral Resources

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Since it is not granted to us to live long, let us transmit to posterity some memorial that we have at least lived.

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

The Democratic Party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.