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.

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Noble fathers have noble children.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.