A mother who is really a mother is never free.

All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

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

Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.

An angry father is most cruel toward himself.

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

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head.