All the life must be led with one, and also all the griefs and displeasures coming therewith patiently be taken and borne. - Thomas More

Now there was a young gentleman which had married a merchant's wife. And having a little wanton money, which him thought burned out the bottom of his purse, in the first year of his wedding took his wife with him and went over sea, for none other errand but to see Flanders and France and ride out one summer in those countries.

for your lords are readier to feed idle people than to take care of the sick; and often the heir is not able to keep together so great a family as his predecessor did.

Some men may be snared by beauty alone, but none can be held except by virtue and compliance.