It is more important to know where your children are tonight than where your ancestors were when the Mayflower sailed.

Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy.

Old genealogists never die. They just lose their census.

From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honors.

Great birth is a very poor dish at table.

A great many family trees were started by grafting.

He that boasteth of his ancestors, confesseth he hath no virtue of his own.