Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . .

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be Enthusiasm.

No one is fool enough to choose war instead of peace. For in peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.