“Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable”

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

“Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other”

“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”

“For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one”