That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go hang!

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.

But even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognized by the police, there must be degrees in the freedom and sympathy realized, and some principle to guide simple folk in their selection.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.