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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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

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

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

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 is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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