Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.