It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

As for his secret to staying married: "My wife tells me that if I ever decide to leave, she is coming with me."

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

Call no man unhappy until he is married.

General McClellan and myself are to be photographed ... if we can be still long enough. I feel General McClellan should have no problem.