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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!