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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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

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

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