In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.
So long as we love, we serve so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.