"Marriage is a great institution"

"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"

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

"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them"

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime"

"Men are only as great as they are kind"

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place"

"He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex"

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do"

"To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization"