Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.

Always taking out of the meal - tub, and never putting in, soon comes to the bottom

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.

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.