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

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

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

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

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.

Men are what their mothers made them.

One race there is of men, one of gods, but from one mother we both draw our breath.

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. 

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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