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

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

A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy till they die!

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. 

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

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

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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.

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