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. 

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.

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.

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

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.

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

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

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

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

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