“A man inherits most of the qualities of his mind and body.
He may develop his inheritances but he cannot alter them.
So, the matter of one’s heredity is of much importance.
The stock of which one is a scion may bear good fruit,
even imported fruit, but by and large it will be the same fruit.
‘Do you grow figs of thorns?’"
Judge Edward C. O’Rear
(1863 - 1963)