Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will take care of that.

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.