The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.

No one ever became great by imitation.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

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.

It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

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.

Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

A man who is good enough to go to heaven is not good enough to be a clergyman.