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.

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

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

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

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their 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. 

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.