My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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

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. 

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

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

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

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.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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.

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

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

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.