"Only with our government are you given a certificate at birth, a license at marriage, and a bill at death"

"If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death"

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

"My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me"

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

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

"Immortality - a fate worse than death"

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband"

"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit"

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open"

"Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see"