“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice
“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage
“Love. The reason I dislike that word is that it means too much for me, far more than you can understand
“Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.
“Spread love everywhere you go: first of all in your own home. Give love to your children, to a wife or husband, to a next-door neighbor
“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
“Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with
“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times, in life after life, in age after age forever
“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.