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.

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

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. 

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

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

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.

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.