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

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

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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

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

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