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. 

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

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

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

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

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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

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

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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