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

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

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

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.