T. L. Haines and L. W. Yaggy

“ The man who is tied down by half-a-dozen blooming responsibilities and their mother, will make a higher and stronger flight than the bachelor, who having nothing to keep him steady, is always floundering in the mud. ”

“ Marriage changes the current of a man's feelings and gives him a centre for his thoughts, his affections and his acts.
If it were intended for man to be single, there would be no harm in remaining so; and, on the other hand, it would become a crime if any persons would unite and live as wedded. ”

“ Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself, and is that state of good things to which God has designed the present constitution of the world.
We advise every young man to get married. The chances are better by fifty per cent. all through life, in every respect. There is no tear shed for the old bachelor; there s no ready hand and kind heart to cheer him in his loneliness and bereavement; there is none in whose eyes he can see himself reflected, and from whose lips he can receive the unfailing assurances of care and love. ”

“ An unmarried man is but half of a perfect being, and it requires the other half to make things right; and it cannot be expected that in this imperfect state he can keep straight in the path of rectitude any more than a boat with one oar can keep a straight course. ”

“ A man who avoids matrimony on account of the cares of wedded life, cuts himself off from a great blessing for fear of a trifling annoyance. He rivals the wiseacre who secured himself against corns by having his legs amputated. Bachelor brother, there cannot, by any possibility, be a home where there is no wife. ”

“ The guardians of the Holborn Union lately advertised for candidates to fill the situation of engineers at the work-house of a single man, a wife not being allowed to reside on the premises. Twenty-one candidates presented themselves, but it was found that as to testimonials, character workmanship, and appearance, the best men were all married men. ”

“ In nine cases out of ten, where married men become drunkards, or where they commit crimes against the peace of the community, the foundation of these acts was laid while in a single state, or where the wife is, as is sometimes the case, an unsuitable match. ”