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

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

I will share all of this with you whenever you wish.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

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

I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

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.

Is it no imputation to be arraigned before this House, in which I have sat forty years, and to have my name transmitted to posterity with disgrace and infamy?

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

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

Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

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

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

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

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 words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

And those are the Rich, who transmit what they have to their Posterity; whereby particular Families become rich; and of such are compounded Cities, Countries, Nations, etc.

Leibniz dedicated his life to efforts to educate people to understand that true happiness is found by locating their identity in benefitting mankind and their posterity.

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.

As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?

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.

Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

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

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission. Posterity deals with us however it sees fit. But I gave it 20 years of my best shot.

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

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 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.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

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

I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

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?

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

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.