When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

I believe that more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other-I mean from the attempt to prolong family connections unduly and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.

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

Parents are like cars. ... built-in obsolescence.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

He that loves not his wife and children, feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.

There is something sad and terrifying about big families.

All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.