“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life”
“Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life”
“The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their lives, which infallibly destroy them”
“We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it”
“The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
“Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought”
“There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.”
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century”