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

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and 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.

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

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

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.