To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.