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.

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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. 

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

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

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

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

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