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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

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

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

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

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.

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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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.