To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to... fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, ...and, like the grave, cries, "Give, give!" The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government. You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wilt thou have this Woman to thy wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of Matrimony? Wilt thou lo...ve her, comfort her, honour, and keep her in sickness and in health; and, forsaking all other, keep thee only unto her, so long as ye both shall live?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of... right and wrong in my life--ever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Owning a wife with him meant owning her. She wasn't anybody else's business,... Either to praise her or so much as name her, And he'd thank people not to think of her.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I, his wife, rested and was warmed in the sunlight of his loyal love, and glorious fame, and now, even though his beautiful lif...e has gone out, it is as when some far off planet disappears from the heavens, the light of his great fame still falls upon and warms me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »