I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't rea…

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

One fool at least in every married couple.

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.