Quotes about Legacy

The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the very things whence they derive their pleasures often carry with them the seeds of sorrow.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

There is no grater burden on a child than the unlived life of a parent.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to this country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence.

Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

Oh, may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.