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

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

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

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

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. 

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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