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.

If parents would only realize how they bore 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.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.