"I am a very ambitious man, and I want to be famous, even after my death."

"I have imbibed such a love for money that I keep some sequins in a drawer to count, and cry over them once a week."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

"I am a very independent man, and I hate to be controlled by anyone."

"Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life."