Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.

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

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

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

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.

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.

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.

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.