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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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.

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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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