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. 

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.

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

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

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

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.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

My father! The sun is my father, and the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will recline.

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

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.