"The Southern slave would obey God in respect to marriage, and also to the reading and studying of His word. But this, as we have seen, is forbidden him"

"There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage"

"When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place"

"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards"

"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves"

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person"

"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop"

"Marriage is the death of hope"

"Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory"