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

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

'Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.'

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''

“If we call these foothills, can we call the little trees 'foot trees?''' (While driving in the foothills.)