... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress.

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

They err, who say that husbands can't be lovers.

For a wife take the daughter of a good mother.

A wife is not to be chosen by the eye only. Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

He that speaks ill of his wife dishonors himself.

Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprised at the large number that re-enlist.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.

A good wife maketh a good husband.

Marriage itself is not solely an institution for the propagation of children, but is also for the fruition of that richer fellowship God intended when he saw that it was not good for man to live alone.