The good husband is one, who, wedded not by interest but by choice, is
constant as well from inclination as from principle; he treats his wife
with delicacy as a woman, with tenderness as a friend: he attributes her
follies to her weakness, her imprudence to her inadvertency; he passes
them over therefore with good nature, and pardons them with indulgence:
all his care and industry are employed for her welfare; all his strength
and powers are exerted for her support and protection; he is more
anxious to preserve his own character and reputation, because her’s is
blended with it: lastly, the good husband is pious and religious, that
he may animate her faith by his practice, and enforce the precepts of
Christianity by his own example: that as they join to promote each
other’s happiness in this world, they may unite together in one eternal
joy and felicity in that which is to come.
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