I hope they get here soon. The kids are biting at the chomp.

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.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

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

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