From A Concise History of the Catholic Church, Thomas Bokenkotter:

In one of his pamphlets, Against Jovinian, Jerome got so carried away and dwelt on the disagreeable aspects of marriage in such crude and excessive terms that even his friends were embarrassed and felt it necessary to remonstrate with him. Jerome's response was characteristic:

In order to make my meaning quite clear, let me state that I should definitely like to see every man take a wife -- the kind of man, that is, who perhaps is frightened of the dark and just cannot quite manage to lie down in his bed all alone