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.

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.

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

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

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

Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

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

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

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

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