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. 

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

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

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

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

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

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

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.