It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.
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Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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Love is often the fruit of marriage.
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Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life, so that nothing will hinder your prayers. -- 1 Peter 3:7
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For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. -- Matthew 22:30
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.
