If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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

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

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

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

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