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

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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

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. 

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

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

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

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

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.