Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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