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

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

It is impossible to please all the world and one’s father.

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.

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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. 

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

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

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.