After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

What you would seem to be, be really.

The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind.

We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.

What can laws do without morals?