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  • Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Time Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Time Quotes , Climbing Quotes