A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of a friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and indeed, all the sweets of life.
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
Let us set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade.
Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only whom you think you can't live without.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Let us now set forth one of the fundamental truths about marriage: the wife is in charge.
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.