In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

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

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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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