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.

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.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

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

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

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.