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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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 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 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. 

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

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

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