I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father’s generation. It’s a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

My daddy had a pocket watch that he wore at all times in court. I gave Greg the watch and showed him how Daddy used to use it.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.