Even in animals there exists the spirit of their sires.
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.
Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.
When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?
We are the children of many sires, and every drop of blood in us in its turn betrays its ancestor.
It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.
Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.