Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.