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

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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