If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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