Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Good family life is never an accident but always an achievement by those who share it.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

To an old father, nothing is more sweet Than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways Are not so tender.

A large family, quick help.

Of those that are drawn away, each is drawn elsewhere toward another: once more a man and a woman, in a loneliness they are not liable at that time to notice, are tightened together upon a bed: and another family has begun.

Cruel is the strife of brothers.

I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.

As states subsist in part by keeping their weaknesses from being known, so is it the quiet of families to have their chancery and their parliament within doors, and to compose and determine all emergent differences there.

Father raised his glass one last time and we repeated after him: "Next year in Jerusalem." None of us could know that this was our last Passover meal as a family.