“Be off! these shams of golden tresses spare;
No honest woman ever dyes her hair.”
“Better to have, if good you rightly measure,
Little with joy than much that brings not pleasure,
Scant means with peace than piles of anxious treasure.”
“Marriage, if truth be told (of this be sure),
An evil is—but one we must endure.”
“Wretched is he that has one son; or, rather,
More wretched he who of more sons is father.”
“Think this, on marriage when your mind is set: