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.
To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven.
— Bible
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.
My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
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.
I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.
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.
You may not be able to leave your children a great inheritance, but day by day, you may be weaving coats for them which they will wear for all eternity.
All heiresses are beautiful.
Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.
The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir.
I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.
The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
Nothing succeeds like ones own successor.
It's going to be fun to watch and see how long the meek can keep the earth after they inherit it.
A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!
The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.
If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.
Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
Die and endow a college or a cat.
But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.
He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral.
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.
It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.
— Saying
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well-educated family.
No legacy is so rich as honestly.
Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rather.
What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.