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

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.

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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.

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.  

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

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

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

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