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

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.

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

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. 

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.

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

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.

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

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.