The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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.

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

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. 

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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!

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