"The chain of wedlock is so heavy..." - Quote by Heraclitus

“What was scattered, gathers.What was gathered, blows away”

“Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.”

“We have to be faster in calming down a resentment than putting out a fire, because the consequences of the first are infinitely more dangerous than the results of the last; fire ends burning down some houses at the most, while the resentment can cause cruel wars, with the ruin and total destruction of nations.”

“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”

“I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.”

“Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.”

“Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.”

“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”

“Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.”