Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy.
Ancestors Quotes
You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Pride thyself on what virtue thou hast, and not on thy parentage.
Old genealogists never die. They just lose their census.
Beware of men who flourish with hereditary honors.
Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.
From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors.
A man who prides himself on his ancestry is like the potato plant, the best part of which is underground.
He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another.
Great birth is a very poor dish at table.
