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

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

Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.

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

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

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

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.

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

The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.