Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

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.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

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.

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