“A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable
“Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
“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
“Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out
“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment