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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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. 

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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