Important families are like ...

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Quotes from the same author

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
It is impossible to love and to be wise.