Relationships and Family

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

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

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.

The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly .

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.