“Aristocracy has three successive ages: the age of superiorities, the age of privileges, the age of vanities. Originating in the first, it degenerates in the second and becomes extinct in the third.François René de Chateaubriand
“’Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. Alfred Lord Tennyson
“He comes of the Brahmin caste of New England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy.Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)