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

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

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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

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.

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

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

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

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