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

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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.

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

He that raises a large family, does indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand…a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. 

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.