“I always say to these here, marry the first man that asks you. There's only three classes of men a woman should never marry - a delicate man, a drunken man, and a lazy man. I'm not so sure that the lazy man isn't the worst.”

“A married man is only half a man.”

“When a woman marries she belongs to another man; and when she belongs to another man there is nothing more you can say to her.”

“I'm so glad I didn't ruin a man's life by marrying him.”

“But yet he was reputed one of the wise men, that made answer to the question, when a man should marry,—A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.”

“I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.”

“I have it on good authority that Yankee men are so lazy they marry pregnant women.”

“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”

“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”

“When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”