In marriage a man becomes slack and selfish and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Marry or not? Whichever you do, you will repent it.

Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.

Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.

Marriage is indeed a manoeuvring business.