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

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

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

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey 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. 

Men are what their mothers made them.