If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.