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

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

Family! Thou art the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

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.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

To be a successful father… there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.

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

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

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