No legacy is so rich as honestly.
Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow.
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.
The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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.
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
To inherit property is not to be born — it is to be still-born, rather.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.
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