As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.