“How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.”

“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed”

“Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.”

“Marriage: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two”

“I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.”

“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”