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

"The sting of a reproach, is the truth of it."

"He that is rich, has many friends."

"The discontented man finds no easy chair."

"After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even h…"