It is so far from being natural for a man and woman to live in a state of marriage, that we find all the motives which they have for remaining in that connection, and the restraints which civilised society imposes to prevent separation, are hardly sufficient to keep them together.

Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands' parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is "taking a daughter-in-law."

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple,-in that of the lady particularly; it tells you that her lot is disposed of in this world; that you can have no hopes of her.

There are some good marriages, but no delightful ones.

The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.

Marriage is a lot of things-an alliance, a sacrament, a comedy, or a mistake; but it is definitely not a partnership because that implies equal gain. And every right-thinking woman knows the profit in matrimony is by all odds hers.

Marriage was all a woman's idea, and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke it becomes us to be grateful.