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.

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

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

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. 

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.