The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least.  They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.—­Lytton.

Marriage.—­Save the love we pay to heaven, there is none purer, holier, than that a virtuous woman feels for him she would cleave through life to.  Sisters part from sisters, brothers from brothers, children from their parents, but such woman from the husband of her choice, never!—­Sheridan Knowles.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.—­Goldsmith.

A married man falling into misfortune is more apt to retrieve his situation in the world than a single one, chiefly because his spirits are soothed and retrieved by domestic endearments, and his self-respect kept alive by finding that although all abroad be darkness and humiliation, yet there is a little world of love at home over which he is a monarch.—­Jeremy Taylor.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.—­Southey.

It is not good that the man should be alone.—­Genesis 2:18.

The most unhappy circumstance of all is, when each party is always laying up fuel for dissension, and gathering together a magazine of provocations to exasperate each other with when they are out of humor.—­Steele.

When thou choosest a wife, think not only of thyself, but of those God may give thee of her, that they reproach thee not for their being.  —­Tupper.

An obedient wife commands her husband.—­Tennyson.

No man can either live piously or die righteous without a wife. 
—­Richter.

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other’s mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other’s frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.—­Addison.

Man is the circled oak; woman the ivy.—­Aaron hill.

A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife.  It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.—­Dr. Johnson.

Go down the ladder when thou marriest a wife; go up when thou choosest a friend.—­Rabbi Ben AZAI.

Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust for marriage; but 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.—­Dr. Johnson.