As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

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

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

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

I cannot bear a parent’s tears.

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

Men are what their mothers made them.

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.

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. 

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

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

Familiarity breeds contempt—and children.