“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war”

“Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?”

“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”

“Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures”

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

“Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought”