There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, for there are plenty of others.
What is nobler than a man wresting and wringing his bread from the stubborn soil by the sweat of his brow and the break of his back for his wife and children!
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.