I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous.
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
