My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

Since the day of creation, the fondest hopes of men and women have been to pass on to their children something better than they themselves enjoyed. That hope represents a spark of the Divine which is implanted in every human breast.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.