I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

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. 

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

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

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

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