been committed, and always speak lovingly.

8. Never taunt with a past mistake.

9. Neglect the whole world besides rather than one another.

10. Never allow a request to be repeated.

11. Never make a remark at the expense of each other,--it is a
meanness.

12. Never part for a day without loving words to think of during
absence.

13. Never meet without a loving welcome.

14. Never let the sun go down upon any anger or grievance.

15. Never let any fault you have committed go by until you have
frankly confessed it and asked forgiveness.

16. Never forget the happy hours of early love.

17. Never sigh over what might have been, but make the best of what
is.

18. Never forget that marriage is ordained of God, and that His
blessing alone can make it what it should ever be.

19. Never be contented till you know you are both walking in the
narrow way.

20. Never let your hopes stop short of the eternal home.
--COTTAGER AND ARTISAN.

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse
than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter
undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but
too frequently leading to the same result.--LORD ROCHESTER.

Let us no more contend, nor blame
Each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive
In offices of love, how we may lighten
Each other's burden, in our share of woe.
--MILTON.

The world well tried, the sweetest thing in life
Is the unclouded welcome of a wife.
--WILLIS.

A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of
paradise.--GOETHE.

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.--ANDREW
JACKSON.

If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.--MICHELET.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can
be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without
integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty,
riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can
claim.--DR. JOHNSON.

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live
till I were married.--SHAKESPEARE.

The good wife is none of our dainty dames, who love to appear in a
variety of suits every day new; as if a good gown, like a stratagem in
war, were to be used but once. But our good wife sets up a sail
according to the keel of her husband's estate;