It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

Blood's thicker than water, and when one's in trouble Best to seek out a relative's open arms.

A poor relation-is the most irrelevant thing in nature,-a piece of impertinent correspondency,-an odious approximation,-a haunting conscience,-a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.