" "He that takes a wife takes care,"
says Ben Franklin. "I chose my wife," says Goldsmith, "as she did her
wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well." "Before marriage,"
says Addison,
"WE CANNOT BE TOO INQUISITIVE
and discerning in the faults of the person beloved, nor after it too
dimsighted and superficial. Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness
and miseries.
A MARRIAGE OF LOVE
is pleasant; a marriage of interest easy; and a marriage where both
meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship,
all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of
life." "It is the policy of the Londoners," says Thomas Fuller, "when
they send a ship into the Mediterranean Sea, to make every mariner
therein a merchant, each seaman venturing somewhat of his own, which
will make him more wary to avoid, and more valiant to undergo dangers.
Thus married men, especially if having posterity, are
THE DEEPER SHARERS IN THAT NATION
wherein they live, which engageth their affections to the greater
loyalty." "Matrimony hath something in it of nature, something of
civility, something of divinity," says Bishop Hall.
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