Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Isaac Barrow Quotes

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.