People ask what the secret of a happy marriage is. If there is one, it's 'don't talk about it.
I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
Lady Sondes' match surprises, but does not offend me; had her first marriage been of affection, or had their been a grown-updaughter, I should not have forgiven her; but I consider everybody as having a right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.
A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.
The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.
Second, marriage is an issue that our Founding Fathers wisely left to the states.
Let me first state that I believe that marriage is a sacred union between one man and one woman.