morals are sworn friends and firm
allies.--_Bartol._

The "over-formal" often impede, and sometimes frustrate, business by a
dilatory, tedious, circuitous, and (what in colloquial language is
called) fussy way of conducting the simplest transactions. They have
been compared to a dog which cannot lie down till he has made three
circuits round the spot.--_Whately._

~Martyrs.~--Even in this world they will have their judgment-day, and
their names, which went down in the dust like a gallant banner trodden
in the mire, shall rise again all glorious in the sight of
nations.--_Mrs. Stowe._

It is not the death that makes the martyr, but the cause.--_Canon Dale._

It is admirable to die the victim of one's faith; it is sad to die the
dupe of one's ambition.--_Lamartine._

God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and
tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which
they had never the opportunity of performing.--_Addison._

~Matrimony.~--When a man and woman are married their romance ceases and
their history commences.--_Rochebrune._

It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated;
often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who
comes between them.--_S. Smith._

Married in haste, we repent at leisure.--_Congreve._

I believe marriages would in general be as happy, and often more so, if
they were all made by the Lord Chancellor, upon a due consideration of
the characters and circumstances, without the parties having any choice
in the matter.--_Johnson._

Hanging and wiving go by destiny.--_Shakespeare._

The married man is like the bee that fixes his hive, augments the world,
benefits the republic, and by a daily diligence, without wronging any,
profits all; but he who contemns wedlock, like a wasp, wanders an
offence to the world, lives upon spoil and rapine, disturbs peace,
steals sweets that are none of his own, and, by robbing the hives of
others, meets misery as his due reward.--_Feltham._

One can, with dignity, be wife and widow but once.--_Joubert._

Few natures can preserve through years the poetry of the first
passionate illusion. That can alone render wedlock the seal that
confirms affection, and not the mocking ceremonial that consecrates its
grave.--_Bulwer-Lytton._

It's hard to wive and thrive both in a year.--_Tennyson._

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want
everything.