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

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. 

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

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

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.  

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

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

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

Men are what their mothers made them.

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.

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