The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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. 

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

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.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.