wait your Absence, that they may speak their harsh Interpretations on each other's Words and Actions during the time you were with them.
It is certain that the greater Part of the Evils attending this Condition of Life, arises from Fashion. Prejudice in this Case is turn'd the wrong way, and instead of expecting more Happiness than we shall meet with in it, we are laugh'd into a Prepossession, that we shall be disappointed if we hope for lasting Satisfactions.
With all Persons who have made good Sense the Rule of Action, Marriage is describ'd as the State capable of the highest human Felicity.
Tully
has Epistles full of affectionate Pleasure, when he writes to his Wife, or speaks of his Children. But
all the Hints of this kind I have met with in Writers of ancient date, I am pleas'd with an Epigram of
Martial
in honour of the Beauty of his Wife