To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.—Hannah More.
A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.—Chesterfield.
The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.—Lytton.
Marriage.—Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to. Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!—Sheridan Knowles.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.—Goldsmith.
A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spirits are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and his self-respect kept alive by finding that although all abroad be darkness and humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at home over which he is a monarch.—Jeremy Taylor.
A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.—Southey.
It is not good that the man should be alone.—Genesis 2:18.
The most unhappy circumstance of all is, when each party is always laying up fuel for dissension, and gathering together a magazine of provocations to exasperate each other with when they are out of humor.—Steele.
When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.—Tupper.