Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

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.

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

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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

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

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

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

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

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.