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

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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

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

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

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

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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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. 

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.

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

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

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