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

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

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

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.