There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.

Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.