Relationships and Family

Our love for our children springs from the soul's greatest yearning for immortality.

Observe that open loves are held to be more honorable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honorable.

Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.

It is only just that anything that up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

It behooves those who take the young to task to leave them room for excuse, lest they drive them to be hardened by too much rebuke.

If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest.

You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. Shall we just carelessly allow children to hear any casual tales which may be devised by casual persons, and to receive into their minds ideas for the most part the very opposite of those which we should wish them to have when they are grown up?

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.

He whom love touches not walks in darkness

As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves.

Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.

The Family is a petty despotism.

A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.

If a kingdom be . . . a great family, a family likewise is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go by any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

I mean the attempt to prolong family connection unduly, and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

The family is the association established by nature for the supply of man’s everyday wants.

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.