The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.

I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.

Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

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.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.