When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. View quotes by Thomas Paine
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. View quotes by Carl Sagan
There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension. View quotes by Paul Getty
Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. View quotes by Ambrose Bierce
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. View quotes by Sir Walter Scott
