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

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

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

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

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

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

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

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

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

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.

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.