A family enjoying the unspeakable peace and freedom of being orphans
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.