The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earth by immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

Ford.

I take it, as those that deny purgatory;
It locally contains a heaven or a hell-
There's no third place in 't.

Webster.

Marry! no faith; husbands are like lots in
The lottery; you may draw forty blanks
Before you find one that has any prize
In him; a husband generally is a

Careless domineering thing, that grows like
Coral; which, as long as it is under water,
Is soft and tender; but as soon
As it has got its branch above the waves,
Is presently hard, stiff, not to be bow'd.

Marston.

Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,

And for thy maintenance: commits his body
To painful labour, both by sea and land;
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold,
While thou liest warm at home, secure and

safe.

Shakespeare.

Say a day, without the ever. No, no, Orlando; men are April when they woo, December

when they wed: maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. Shakespeare.

Marriage is a joy for a month, a sorrow for a life; a breaking of the back, a paying down of money, and a hearkening to a woman's tongue. Spanish Proverb.

Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people; yet, of all actions of our life, 't is most meddled with by other people.

Selden.

The sum of all that makes a just man happy
Consists in the well choosing of his wife;
And there, well to discharge it, it does require
Equality of years, of birth, or fortune;
For beauty being poor, and not cried up
By birth or wealth, can truly mix with neither.
And wealth, when there's such difference in

years

And fair descent, must make the yoke uneasy.

Massinger.

Marriage is a desperate thing. The frogs in Esop were extremely wise; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again.

Selden.

MISERY.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

Shakespeare.

If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced; and the humanity of that man can deserve no panegyric who is capable of reproaching a criminal in the hands of the executioner.

Johnson.

MIND.

The mind is it's own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.

Milton.

"On earth there is nothing great but man; In man there is nothing great but mind."

MISUNDERSTANDING.

Misunderstanding and inattention create more uneasiness in the world than deception and artifice, or, at least, their consequences are more universal.

Göthe.

MUSIC.

It is a hard matter for me to understand how people can have neither an ear for, nor an appreciation of, music. Music is not only "a combination of sounds so arranged as to fall harmoniously and pleasantly on the ear," it is far more. The ear is the mere tool for conveying the varied sounds to the soul; this is where the music is felt and appreciated. Music of the first order, and delicious harmony sweetly mingled, seem to bring one nearer to heaven and its angelic harpists.

Music alone with sudden charms can bind
The wandering sense, and calm the troubled

mind.

Congreve.

Though cheerfulness and I have long been

strangers, Harmonious sounds are still delightful to me: There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

Lilly.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune. Such the extensiveness thereof, that it stoopeth so low as brute beasts, yet mounteth as high as angels. For horses will do more for a whistle than for a whip, and by hearing their bells, jingle away their weariness. Thomas Fuller.

To the element of air God has given the power of producing sounds; to the ear the capacity of receiving them; and to the affections of the mind an aptness to be moved by them, when transmitted through the body. The philosophy of the thing is too deep and wonderful for us; we cannot attain unto it! But such is the fact : with that we are concerned, and that is enough for us to know.

Horne.

The powers of music are felt or known by all men, and are allowed to work strangely upon the mind and the body, the passions and the blood; to raise joy and grief; to give pleasure and pain; to cure diseases, and the mortal sting of the tarantula; to give motion to the feet as well as to the heart; to compose disturbed thoughts; to assist and heighten devotion itself.

Temple.

Music has charms to soothe the savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend the knotted oak.
I've read that things inanimate have mov'd,
And, as with living souls, have been inform'd
By magic numbers, and persuasive sound.

Congreve.

MISFORTUNES.

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we