Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know. 

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

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

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

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. 

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

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.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

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

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

If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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