“The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married”

“A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor”

“Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage”

“The woman is uniformly sacrificed to the wife and mother”

“A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife”

“The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits”