My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose your ancestors carefully. Although both my parents died young, I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors. My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth, at the age of sixty-seven, but […]
Ancestors Quotes
Send your noble blood to market and see what it will buy.
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.
