If parents would only realize how they bore their 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.

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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

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

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

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