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.

Men are what their mothers made them.

A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.

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

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

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.