Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

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

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

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

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.