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 2. A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another.If these minds love one another the home will beas beautiful as a flower garden.But if these minds getout of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.

 3. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

 4. A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

 5. A proper balance must be struck between indulgence andseverity. However, severity, despite occasional mistakes, is preferable to a lack of discipline.

 6. A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

 7. All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

 8. An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

 9. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

10. Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

11. Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

12. Children are poor men's riches.

13. Children are the keys of paradise.

14. Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

15. Children have more need of models than of critics.

16. Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter.

17. Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked;and either may be wrong.

18. Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

19. Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inheritshis own past.

20. Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.

21. For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

22. God could not be everywhere, and there fore he made mothers.

23. He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of another.

24. I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

25. If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

26. If we could trace our descendants, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves.

27. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

28. In the family where the father rules secure, there dwells the peace which thou wilt in vain seek for elsewhere in the wide world outside.

29. It is a wise father that knows his own child.

30. It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry.

31. It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.

32. It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, so he be a man of merit.

33. It is only shallow-minded pretenders who either make distinguished origin a matter of personal merit, or obscure origin a matter of personal reproach.

34. Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

35. Men are what their mothers made them.

36. Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.

37. Nature's loving proxy, the watchful mother.

38. Nor need we power or splendour, Wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender-These form the wealth of home.

39. Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

40. Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.

41. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

42. Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.

43. Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life.There is no form of penal servitude worse than this.

44. The bravest battle that ever was fought; Shall I tell you where and when? On the maps of the world you will find it not;It was fought by the mothers of men.

45. The child is father of the man.

46. The family is the nucleus of civilization.

47. The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.

48. The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

49. The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.

50. The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.

51. The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like a potato, - the only good belonging to him is underground.

52. The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

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

54. There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

55. There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

56. Those who depend on the merits of their ancestors may be said to search in the roots of the tree for those fruits which the branches ought to produce.

57. To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

58. To make a happy fire-side clime To weans and wife,That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

59. Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old,he will not depart from it.

60. What gift has Providence bestowed on man that is so dear to him as his children?

61. When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

62. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

63. When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, And your throat coughs the last gasping breath - As one dragged in the dark to a great precipice -What assistance are a wife and child? He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

64. Where children are, there is the golden age.

65. Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

66. Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

67. Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My Mother.

68. Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all!