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

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

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!