"I make little account of genealogical trees. Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are …"

"That all from Adam first begun, None but ungodly Woolston doubts, And that his son, and his son's sons Were all but p…"

"On garde toujours la marque de ses origines."

"Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur."

"Stemma non inspicit. Omnes, si ad primam originem revocentur, a Diis sunt."

"All of them, my ancestors,/blood of my blood,/flame of my flame,/dead and living mixed together,/sad, grotesque, imme…"

"That is the nature of our ancestors: immensely courageous hunters, defenders, shepherds, voyagers, inventors, warrior…"

"The wisdom of our ancestors."

"I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came in with the Conqueror."

"Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintan…"