“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty as the son who neglects them”
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“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty as the son who neglects them”
“An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife”
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor ”
“Blood is thicker than water”
“Charity begins at home”
“Babies are always more trouble than you thought -- and more wonderful.”
“A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother”
“Babies are a link between angels and man”
“I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy”
“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance”
“Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins”
“The home is the chief school of human virtues”
“The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom”
“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted”
“All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter”
“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be”
“Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well”
“When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life”
“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers”
“You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world”