Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

If parents would only realize how they bore 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. 

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

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

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

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.