To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.
What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.
To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
One man is equivalent to all Creation. One man is a World in miniature.
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.