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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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