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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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