19. Never be contented till you know you are both walking in the narrow way.
20. Never let your hopes stop short of the eternal home.—Cottager and Artisan.
Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch—the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.—Lord Rochester.
Let us no more contend, nor blame
Each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive
In offices of love, how we may lighten
Each other's burden, in our share of woe.
—Milton.
The world well tried, the sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife.
—Willis.
A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.—Goethe.
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.—Andrew Jackson.
If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.—Michelet.
Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.—Dr. Johnson.
When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.—Shakespeare.