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

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

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

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

In peace, children inter their parents; war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.

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

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

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

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one’s own Trojan horse.

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

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