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

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.