“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun”

“If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee”

“For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice”

“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child”

“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams”