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

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

Men are what their mothers made them.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for 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.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.