I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

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. 

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

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.