If every man would make his prime concern the comfort and well-being of his wife and every wife make her chief concern the comfort and well-being of her husband, we would have very little divorce in the land.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.
If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.
If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.
Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.