It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind

Marriage, Sir, is much more necessary to a man than to a woman; for he is much less able to supply himself with domestick comforts

That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination

No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to himself.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.