From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor. – Proverb

Every man is an omnibus in which his ancestors ride. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons cant sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. – Junius