Ere Babylon Was Dust, The Magus Zoroaster,

Yes, Marriage Is Hateful, Detestable. A Kind Of Ineffable, Sickening Disgust Seizes My Mind When I Think Of This Most Despotic, Most Unrequited Fetter Which Prejudice Has Forged To Confine Its Energies.

That Orbed Maiden, With White Fire Laden, Whom Mortals Call The Moon.

There Is A Harmony In Autumn, And A Luster In Its Sky...

A System Could Not Well Have Been Devised More Studiously Hostile To Human Happiness Than Marriage.

I Know The Cause Of All Human Disappointment -- Worldly Prejudice.