'Daddy, there's Victor, only he has more white hairs now.' (about our neighbor 3 doors down who is a regular reader of McClelland Family.com)

The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.

'The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.'

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

'When you kiss someone, your heart goes out to them, and when you're done kissing them your heart goes back in.'