"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"

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

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

"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"

"A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband"

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

"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open"

"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves"

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

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