Cotal vestigio in terra di sè lascia,
Qual fumo in aere od in acqua la schiuma.
Inferno XXIV.
"Now needs thy best of man;" so spake my guide:
"For not on downy plumes, nor under shade
Of canopy reposing, fame is won;
Without which whosoe'er consumes his days,
Leaveth such vestige of himself on earth,
As smoke in air, or foam upon the wave."
Cary's Translation.