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

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

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

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.

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.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.