“Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other”

“I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.”

“A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes”

“There would be no great men if there were no little ones ”

“The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”

“The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity”