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.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended—and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them. 

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

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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.