Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.