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No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family.

In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

There are darknesses in life, and there are lights; you are one of the lights.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be

Come back, before I am grown into a very old man, so as you shall hardly know me.

One may be happy to a good degree, I think, in a faithful friend, a moderate fortune, and a retired life; further than this I know nothing to wish; but if there be anything beyond it, I wish it you.

If you love me you will; and if you do not, I shall never love myself.

Chide me when I do anything that is not well, but then make haste to tell me that you have forgiven me, and that you are what I shall ever be, a faithful friend.

Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.

How I should love that plain-heartedness you speak of, if you would use it; nothing is civil but that amongst friends.

The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men.

Each time you happen to me all over again.

we never could differ about the worth and comfort of domestic affection

Husband, lover, nurse--not one of these, has Robert been to me, but all three together.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.

The simple rules are fearless faith, nonresistance and love!

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life.

Love at its highest point--love sublime, unique, invincible--leads us straight to the brink of the great abyss, for it speaks to us directly of the infinite and of eternity.

The man who doubts it, can never have watched the first gleams of tenderness dawning in the clear eyes of one who loves; sunrise itself is a lesser marvel.

do not hope to excite love except by love

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Work is love made visible.