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

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

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

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

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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

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

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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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