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  • Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?

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    Debate in Irish House of Commons, quoted in Sir Jonah Barrington Personal Sketches and Recollections of his ownTimes (1827). SeeAddison 7:40.
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