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.

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

It’s frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself… it seems unfair. You can’t assume the responsibility for everything you do—or don’t do.

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

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

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. 

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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

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

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.