“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”
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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.
There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.