legacy Quotes

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

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.

Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.