If parents would only realize how they bore their children!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The root of the kingdom is in the State. The root of the State is in the family. The root of the family is in the person of its Head.

Men are what their mothers made them.

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

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

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