He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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 family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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.

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

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. 

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

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

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