legacy Quotes

This is Steve's company. This is still Steve's company. It was born that way; it's still that way. And so his spirit, I think, will always be the DNA of this company.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

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

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

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.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.