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.

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.