“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them”

“A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable”

“Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree”

“If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world”

“Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.”

“A lean compromise is better than a fat lawsuit”