Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends. – Miguel de Cervantes