Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet. — Posterity

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

"Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honourd race."

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

"We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us."

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

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