Character is better than ancestry, and personal conduct is of more importance than the highest.
“So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.”
“Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.”