Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.