When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

William Shakespeare

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Martin Luther

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

William Shakespeare

I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it.

Benjamin Franklin

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Joseph Joubert

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Doubt is the father of invention.

Ambrose Bierce