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

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.

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

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

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.

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.