Getting Married Is Like Putting

Pride Measures Prosperity Not By Her Own Advantages But By The Disadvantages Of Others. She Would Not Even Wish To Be A Goddess Unless There Were Some Wretches Left Whom She Could Order About And Lord It Over, Whose Misery Would Make Her Happiness Seem All The More Extraordinary, Whose Poverty Can Be Tormented And Exacerbated By A Display Of Her Wealth. This Infernal Serpent, Pervading The Human Heart, Keeps Men From Reforming Their Lives, Holding Them Back Like A Suckfish.

The Way To Heaven Out Of All Places Is Of Length And Distance.

The Education Of Youth Belongs To The Priests, Yet They Do Not Take So Much Care Of Instructing Them In Letters, As In Forming Their Minds And Manners Aright; They Use All Possible Methods To Infuse, Very Early, Into The Tender And Flexible Minds Of Children, Such Opinions As Are Both Good In Themselves And Will Be Useful To Their Country, For When Deep Impressions Of These Things Are Made At That Age, They Follow Men Through The Whole Course Of Their Lives, And Conduce Much To Preserve The Peace Of The Government, Which Suffers By Nothing More Than By Vices That Rise Out Of Ill Opinions.

There Are Dreadful Punishments Enacted Against Thieves, But It Were Much Better To Make Such Good Provisions By Which Every Man Might Be Put In A Method How To Live, And So Be Preserved From The Fatal Necessity Of Stealing And Of Dying For It.

Getting Married Is Like Putting One's Hand In A Bag Containing 99 Serpents And One Eel.