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

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.

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

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

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. 

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

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.