A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.
Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.