Marriage for a woman at least hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy it lessens our cares by dividing them at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Even in the common affairs of life in love friendship and marriage how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

If there is such a thing as a good marriage it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul and this marriage is liable to divorce.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.