"Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there"

"Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath"

"Business is the salt of life"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses"

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage"

"As soon as there is life there is danger"

"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them"

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"