The married woman is also healthier than
the maid. So, then, get the critics of the married state to specify its
various unhappinesses; then subtract from that schedule all that come
alike to the single state, and you will find that marriage, for its
separate joys, has not a separate set of troubles in as great
proportion. The very highest evidence of the usefulness and
agreeableness of marriage is gathered from the well-known haste in which
both men and women, when death takes away their companions, seek, in a
second marriage, a renewal of those relations which, in their opinion,
lend additional charm to the drama of life.
WEDDED LIFE
You are my true and wedded wife;
As dear to me as are the ruddy drops
That visit my sad heart.--Shakspeare.
She's adorned
Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely--
The truest mirror that an honest wife
Can see her beauty in.--John Tobin.
"Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does
least concern other people," says Selden, "yet, of all actions of our
life, it is most meddled with by other people.
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