“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”

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

“Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage”

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

“A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendships, all the enjoyment of sense and reason - and indeed all the sweets of life.”

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